The argument in favor of “putinization” is pointing at the authoritarian tendencies of the regimes in Hungary and Poland. Those behind the concept “putinization” try to explain the low “indigeneity” of liberal democracy in the region with the local heritage of the Soviet model of the rule in the epoch of the cold war. Their favorite explanation is: “Central European nations were damaged by the four decades of the Communist dictatorship.” Others make reasonable claims that since the Middle Age the region has significantly differed from Western Europe with its culture, economy and in other aspects. In such case, the closest analogues of the current authoritarian regimes in Hungary and Poland were in the Inter War Period. Therefore, it is more expedient to speak of the revival of authoritarianism in Hungary in terms of “Neo-Horthysm” and in Poland in terms of “new Piłsudskism.” Social-focused policy was characteristic to both. Some call it populism. Looking deeper into the chronology, one can see that authoritarian tendencies are now stronger in those countries of Central Europe where in late Middle Age there were multi-national states with nobility (szlachta) and elective monarchies – Hungarian Kingdom and Rzeczpospolita. Both were affected by the civilization of Jagiellonians. The contemporary nations in those countries emerged as civil rights expanded from the noble class to others. The model of authoritarianism was based on the vestiges of feudalism and periphery capitalism in the region. “Putinization” is based on poverty and peripherization.