Orbán compares the EU to the USSR on the anniversary of the 1956 revolution

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Oct. 23 () –

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán criticized this Sunday those who “shoot from the shadows and the heights of Brussels” against Hungary and warned that “they will end up in the same place as their predecessors”, referring to the Soviet Union.

“Let’s not worry about those who shoot at Hungary from the shadows of the heights of Brussels,” Orbán said during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, militarily suffocated by the Soviet Union, and warned that “they will end up in the same place as its predecessors.

“We are tolerant when we have to be and we fight back when we can. We will draw our swords if the opportunity arises and we will resist the long years of oppression that may come,” he said.

For Orbán, Hungarians must have “the courage of a lion, the cunning of a snake and the kindness of a dove” in the future, but in particular in the coming year.

“The migratory invasion from the south, the war in the east and the economic crisis in the west. This is what we have to face,” the Hungarian president listed. “Fortunately the left is not in power. You can imagine what we would have here,” he pointed out.

Orbán has thus highlighted that there is a government “strong, united and that does not shrink when problems come”. “We can protect the interests of Hungary at home and abroad,” he stressed.

Meanwhile, the spokesman for Orbán’s party, Fidesz, in the European Parliament, Tamás Deutsch, has charged in particular against one of the vice presidents of the European Parliament, the German Katarina Barley, who has criticized Orbán for “gradually taking over the country to control it totally”. “We can no longer talk about democratic and constitutional conditions in Hungary,” she said.

Deutsch has called Barley’s behavior “extremist.” “She is poisoning European cooperation and undermines the authority of the European Parliament,” she warned in a letter sent to the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.

These statements by Barley “go beyond the limits of civilized political debate and the behavior expected of a vice-president of the European Parliament”, for which she has called for her dismissal. “I hope that the president will take the necessary measures to preserve the prestige of Parliament,” said Deutsch.