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Captive of the Past? A Pro-Government Historian’s Defense of the Indefensible
Mária Schmidt, a prominent Hungarian pro-government academic, wrote that “the historian cannot project the ideological schemes of his age on the past and cannot observe the past’s narratives with...
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Eastward gaze: Pro-Fidesz Mandiner blog notes that Tusnádfürdő offers nothing...
The pro-government (although essentially neoconservative and occasionally libertarian) Mandiner blog published an opinion piece, noting that Viktor Orbán’s infamous statements in Tusnádfürdő/Băile...
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Gellért Rajcsányi and Tamás Pindroch — Two right-wingers react to Obama’s speech
If I had to define or characterize the reaction to the news of Barack Obama’s speech, I would call it frustrated and helpless anger. Right-wing pundits and some in government (Lajos Kósa or the...
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Gellért Rajcsányi: My three excruciating questions about Fidesz
1. How did Fidesz, the party which stood up against the ‘yes-man’ parties that roamed the corridors of power, the same parties that were essentially Mamelukes, and which shook their fists at the West,...
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Ákos Gergely Balogh: Alone against the world
The central crisis management of the ‘central power field’ has taken on a rather unique turn. The politicians and their key backers are also displaying mighty strange signs of what they are able to...
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Gellért Rajcsányi: Hungary’s Fidesz has lost its buoyancy — Can it ever recover?
Based on the results of the recent Tapolca by-election (although no longer concentrating directly on this vote), one can argue that this is yet another sign that Fidesz has lost its political buoyancy....
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Mandiner.hu and Zsolt Bayer’s genocidal hate speech
I have written about Zsolt Bayer before in the HFP. Our readers may recall that he is a co-founder of the ruling Fidesz party and a prominent pro-Orbán publicist who recently asserted that the Syrian...
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Actress Mari Törőcsik on racism and refugees
One of Hungary’s most celebrated actresses, Mari Törőcsik, is turning 80 this month. When she was approached by the conservative Mandiner website for an interview, she indicated that speaking about...
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Hungarian “expert” opinions and conspiracy theories — Courtesy of...
László Bogár, an economist, university lecturer and pro-government publicist, went on public television in Hungary, in order to explain to viewers how the dastardly United States is using the refugee...
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Ákos Gergely Balogh: Of mothers and daughters, and the villainy of anonymity
Earlier this week, the pro-Fidesz 888.hu news site stooped to a level perhaps never before seen in Hungarian politics (so we’re talking pretty low) and published a series of completely nude,...
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Widespread solidarity after deliberate destruction of Hungary’s Népszabadság
Vienna Capital Partners, the Austrian private equity investor, which owns the firm that published Hungary’s now defunct Népszabadság daily, seems to be providing such a stark example of corporate greed...
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Hungarian Socialist Party president won’t rule out his party’s disappearance...
Complete dysfunction continues in the Hungarian left-centre opposition and the president of the Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialista Párt–MSZP) appeared to exacerbate the situation with a...
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Jobbik leader Gábor Vona: Homosexuals can be proud
“Is heterosexuality difficult for you?”–asked conservative journalist András Stumpf of Gábor Vona, the leader of the far-right Jobbik party, in a video interview appearing on the party’s online TV...
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An inside look at the Fidesz propaganda machine
This morning, a friend from Budapest sent me a digital copy of a print newspaper entitled Lokál, distributed free of charge at metro stations, train stations, public places in Hungary and also...
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A conservative’s wish list for Viktor Orbán’s third consecutive government
Milán Constantinovits is a columnist whose work often appears on the conservative Mandiner news site and he is also a linguist and an author. This week, he published a type of “wish list” of areas that...
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