While the country commemorates the antisoviet insurrection of 1956, the nationalist Prime Minister, known for his prorussian trends, intends to rely on the results of a large “national consultation” to request the lifting of sanctions against Moscow.
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“The sanctions of Brussels ruin us.” The message is accompanied by the drawing of a big missile marked with the word “sanction” to recall the context of the war which rages in neighboring Ukraine. Sunday, October 23, in Debrecen, a great city in eastern Hungary, as everywhere else in this central European country, government propaganda posters are visible on all street corners. With their garish colors and their explicit message, they must encourage the population to participate in the large “national consultation” launched by Viktor Orban, the nationalist Prime Minister, against the sanctions decided by the European Union (EU) in retaliation for the Invasion of Ukraine.
Hungarian households currently receive a list of seven questions to the biased formulation. For example: “An oil embargo would lead to serious problems of supply for Hungary. Do you agree with the Brussels sanctions on oil?” Or: “Sanctions increase the price of foodstuffs and Could generate a new migratory wave. Do you agree with these sanctions? “Known for his prorussian trends, Mr. Orban has already promised to rely on predictable responses to ask Brussels to lift sanctions against Moscow.
commemoration of the anti -eoviet insurrection of 1956
The same day, the 200,000 inhabitants of Debrecen commemorated an event which should lastingly hold Hungary far from Russia. On October 23, 1956, it was in the local university that the anti -eoviet insurrection started which then spread to Budapest, where tens of thousands of Hungarians courageously protested against the communist power by asking the Russians to “return home”, Before being violently crushed by the tanks sent from Moscow a few days later. Sixty-six years separate this tragic event from the current war in Ukraine. And in this stronghold of Fidesz, the formation of Mr. Orban, everyone refuses to make the link.
“It is not comparable”, thus assures the local deputy of the party, Laszlo Posan. “At the time, Hungary was subordinate to the USSR and wanted to become neutral. In Ukraine, it is an open war between two states”, theorizes this parliamentarian, elected without discontinuing since 1998. In his speech pronounced In front of the University of Debrecen to commemorate the events of 1956, he is careful not to speak directly about Ukraine and rather leads a violent charge against “the West” and “the United States”. In 1956, “they had promised us help, but they lied to us”, “they did not react when the Soviet army arrived”, “they are responsible for the dead”, and, today, “They behave like the Communists by sowing chaos with their military aid”.
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