In Eastern Europe, the arguments of ‘white innocence’, historical exceptionalism, and ‘never having colonies’ had systematically denied the region’s participation in global colonialism, only to support the colonial victimhood of ‘peripheral whites’. This paper refutes these semiperipheral historical myths by exploring the story of Hungarian settlers in the Brazilian colonial frontier between the two world wars. While in Brazil the story of Hungarian settlers were de-emphasized as they were absorbed into the wider history of ‘European immigrants’, Hungarian memory politics never admitted these settlers into the history of global colonialism.