Stand up to the “Sovietisation” of Europe – Orban

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Stand up to the “Sovietisation” of Europe – Orban

Catherine Hardy

 

 

BUDAPEST: -- Hungary’s right-wing leader says his country must stand up to Europe’s “Sovietisation” and defend its borders against mass immigration.

 

Viktor Orban was speaking at a commemoration of his country’s 1956 Communist uprising.
 

What did he say?

 

Orban is a critic of the European Union and an early opponent of the recent migration wave into the continent.

 

He said freedom in Europe depended on the nation state and Christian traditions.

 

“People who love their freedom must save Brussels from Sovietisation, from people who want to tell us who we should live with in our countries,” the prime minister said.

 

“We want to be a European nation, not a nationality within Europe.”

 

“As heirs to 1956, we cannot allow Europe to cut the roots that made it great and helped us survive the Soviet suppression. There is no free Europe without nation states and thousands of years of wisdom from Christianity.”

 

“We must close the border to stop the mass migration that flows from the south.”

 

Polish President Andrzej Duda was guest of honour at the commemoration.

 

He assured Hungarians of support from Warsaw.

 

“You can count on Poland, we march together in the toughest moments,” Duda said.

 

“Two countries which were built on Christian foundations and are now free in the unified Europe.”

 

There were cheers from the several thousand-strong crowd.

 

Did anyone disagree?
 

Yes.

 

A few hundred opposition protesters whistled loudly as Orban spoke.

 

Brawls broke out in the crowd between his supporters and opponents.

 

Opposition supporters gathered for their own rally nearby.

 

Former prime minister and the leader of the Democratic Coalition Ferenc Gyurcsánysaid:

“We want to create the opposite of the country which is Viktor Orban’s fantasy. We want a country where everybody feels at home, no matter what his taste, his faith is, no matter what his conviction is”. 
 

Hungary and migration

 

Along with other ex-Communist countries in eastern Europe, Hungary opposes a policy that would require all EU states to take in some of the hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim migrants seeking asylum in the bloc after arriving last year.

 

Orban has led resistance to the stance taken by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

 

She has said EU states have an obligation to share the burden of taking in refugees.

 

Last year, Hungary responded to the influx by sealing its southern borders with a razor-wire fence.

 

Thousands of soldiers and police were deployed.

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-10-24

 

[sweatalot]

Orban

A Voice of wisdom

 

[JAG]

Well I suppose that if anyone is qualified to comment on the "Sovietisation of the EU" it is the Hungarians (and the Czechs).

[jesimps]

Well said lad. The voice of sense. Like all Europeans you're fighting on two fronts, the Muslim invaders and Merkel of the Stasi.

 

[ilostmypassword]

Orban is also the guy pushing the dedemocratization of Hungary. So yes, he should know something about totalitarian methodology.

[Baerboxer]

4 hours ago, JAG said:

Well I suppose that if anyone is qualified to comment on the "Sovietisation of the EU" it is the Hungarians (and the Czechs).

 

Don't forget dear old Angela Merkel. She was a former Communist party youth worker in the DDR and linked to the Stassi. 

 

Interesting that the countries who suffered under soviet style centralist dictator ships governed by bureaucrats are the ones who speak out against that soviet style growing in the EU - well apart from Angela.

[craigt3365]

3 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Don't forget dear old Angela Merkel. She was a former Communist party youth worker in the DDR and linked to the Stassi. 

 

Interesting that the countries who suffered under soviet style centralist dictator ships governed by bureaucrats are the ones who speak out against that soviet style growing in the EU - well apart from Angela.

Very interesting!

[arithai12]

The headline was truncated. The full text should have been:

 

Hungary’s right-wing leader says his country must stand up to Europe’s “Sovietisation” and defend its borders against mass immigration, while keeping sucking in all possible economic benefits from the EU.

 

 

[manarak]

Orban is absolutely right.

 

The EU has been sliding progressively towards a socialist-green totalitarian bureaucracy with some concessions to neo-capitalism... totally the wrong way.