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fullscreen Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speaks in Budapest on the 68th anniversary of the 1956 uprising. Photo: Szilard Koszticsak/AP/TT
Hungary should fight against the leadership in Brussels in the same way as it did against the rulers in Moscow in the 1950s.
The words come from Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who continues to criticize the EU, despite his country currently chairing the EU’s Council of Ministers.
– Do we bow to the will of a foreign power, this time from Brussels, or do we stand against it? I suggest that our answer should be as clear and clear as in 1956. For us, the lesson of 1956 is that we must fight for only one thing: for Hungary and for Hungarian freedom, Orbán said in Budapest on Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency.
About 3,000 people were killed when Soviet forces brutally crushed a short-lived Hungarian attempt to break away from Soviet rule.
Today’s Hungary has been a member of the EU since 2004, but is frequently in conflict with the EU Commission, the EU Parliament and other EU countries, not least when it comes to the view of Russia’s war in Ukraine.