In Defense of Hungary

In Defense of Hungary

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The article first published in americanthinker.com on 04/15/2019.

 

A recent copy of the erstwhile high-brow epigone of German journalism, Die Zeit, carried a piece called “Hungary is lost.” It is as good an example as any of the hopeless left-wing morass that German media have fallen into recently. It starts out be claiming as an introduction that Hungarian democracy is being “systematically destroyed”  by “hate, racism and right-wing gangsterism that have become the “state’s rationale.” Curiously, the English translation of the same sentence is rendered by the relatively anodyne “the institutions, the legal system and the social fabric are nothing but a pile of rubble,” perhaps indicating that the editors were aware that they have gone too far.

 

If so, there is no evidence of any evenhandedness in the body of the long article, full as it is with barely disguised innuendo, slander and outright lies. The lie that no independent press is tolerated is exposed by the author’s own admission that opposition media freely exist in Hungary. What is never mentioned for obvious reasons is that Orban’s Fidesz party has a serious political challenge not from the left but from the right wing Jobbik party, which has polled second in recent elections. And so, Orban is declared a ‘Fuehrer’ who rules by “fear, hate and verbal aggression” and engages in “fascistoid hate campaigns” not seen since the 1930s, while the Hungarian people are slandered as the “most hate-filled in the EU.”

 

A particularly slanderous bent is preserved by the anonymous author for the Hungarian economy, which is booming by any objective criterion. According to him four of the 10 million Hungarians live in abject poverty, while the highest level of poverty measured by Eurostat is under 15% and thus under the average for the EU. Moreover, the unemployment rate has collapsed under Orban from 11.94% in 2012 to 3.6% now. Overall, Hungary has been hugely successful economically and with an average salary of $1148/per month today, a vast improvement from the dismal days of communism, is on its way to prosperity.

 

Much of the venom of the author, who is identified as a former Central European University (CEU) employee, which means a George Soros employ, is reserved for Orban’s anti-immigration stand and the Hungarians’ alleged anti-Semitism. On the former, the author has little to say except to inform us with a straight face that “refugees are systematically starved to death in distant internment camps.” This would certainly be news to even the most unhinged migrants acolyte and is, as a matter of fact, a bold-faced lie. As for the Hungarians’ antisemitism, which we are told on faith afflicts fully 30% of the population, there is no accusation that is more deliberately fraudulent than this.

 

George Soros is, of course, a familiar figure in America recently analyzed perceptively by Stefan Kanfer in the City Journal. Having made a killing in the market by financial machinations, fair or foul (he was convicted for insider trading by the French) he began investing heavily in his Open Society Foundation in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Initially, he funded some worthwhile causes and individuals, but eventually he settled where he is now as the main financier of hard-left causes. Those familiar with Soros’ ideology are well aware that the long-term goal of the man “who fancied himself as some kind of god” has always been the “eradication of national sovereignty” and “open borders and global governance.” In spending billions to achieve these goals, his main enemies have always been the United States, which he has called “the main obstacle to a stable and just world order and Israel. Regarding the latter, Soros has funded all manner of anti-Israeli and barely disguised antisemitic causes like BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) as well as multiple subversive Palestinian causes. He has also, as a matter of course, funded who is who of the left, including Hillary Clinton, Black Lives Matter, pro-immigration groups and anti-catholic activists to mention just a few of them.

 

So what is it that Die Zeit finds so objectionable in Viktor Orban to resort to such obvious slander and lies to demonize him? Perhaps we should let Orban speak for himself. He believes that no country should be made to take migrants against its will, which is the current policy of Merkel, Juncker and other EU leaders. Especially since it has become quite clear that many of the Muslim immigrants refuse to accept European norms and integrate, as voting in the recent Turkish referendum showed where 63% of German Turks voted for Islamist dictator Erdogan. He has also said that the Hungarians have lived in their part of Europe for a thousand years and would like to stay there another thousand years. What exactly is wrong with that?

 

By Alex Alexiev

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