Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has compared Hungary’s membership in the European Union to more than four decades of Soviet occupation. Orbán made the comments during a speech on Monday commemorating the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for the 2nd day of the Europe Summit in Granada, Spain, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. European Union leaders have pledged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy their unwavering support. On Friday, they will face one of their worst political headaches on a key commitment. How and when to welcome debt-laden and war-battered Ukraine into the bloc.
“Today, things pop up that remind us of the Soviet times. Yes, it happens that history repeats itself,” Orbán said at the event, from which all media were excluded except Hungary’s state media. “Fortunately, what once was tragedy is now a comedy at best. Fortunately, Brussels is not Moscow. Moscow was a tragedy. Brussels is just a bad contemporary parody.”
Orbán, a proponent of an alternative form of populist governance that he calls “illiberal democracy,” has long used the holiday to rally his supporters. In recent years, he hasbetween the EU’s attempts to bring Hungary into compliance with its rules on corruption and democracy, and the repression the country faced under both Soviet occupation in the 20th century.
The holiday, which looms large in Hungary’s historical memory as a freedom fight against Russian repression, comes as war rages in neighboring Ukraine where Moscow has occupied large swaths of the country and illegally annexed four regions.
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