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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

A top aide to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has drawn criticism for suggesting that his country would not have resisted a Russian invasion like Ukraine did, multiple reports said.

Balázs Orbán, the prime minister's highly influential political director, made the remarks on the podcast of a conservative Hungarian news magazine.

Balázs Orbán, who is also an MP, is not related to Viktor Orbán.

"We probably would not have done what President Zelenskyy did two and a half years ago, because it is irresponsible, because one can see that he took his country into a war of defense," Balázs Orbán said, the Hungarian outlet Telex reported.

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[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 month ago

When the European "country" is question is Hungary, whose reputation has sunk to the unimaginable depths of being the Russian satellite that it is, referring to one of its leaders as "European leader" is very confusing in my view.

But the top aide's comment is hardly surprising.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I mean I'm sure that's what their leader told him to say, and by their leader I mean Putin. It's basically the worst kept secret at this point that Hungary isn't actually its own country anymore but a Russian territory.

[-] brezel@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

i wanted to write the same thing. hungary is european on paper only.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

That’s because Hungary already lets Putin fuck it’s asshole any time he wants.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

Where’s the flex in that statement? How is suggesting you’d have rolled over and let another country bully you better than the “underdog” country fighting back and giving the bully a hard time? I must’ve missed a memo somewhere along the way.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

Lol hey if you come over you might find me spreading my cheeks for ya nbd jk. But actually? Hah just foolin but, well 👉👈

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Of course it's Hungary. What a sad state of affairs for the country whose brave resistance led to the term "tankie" being coined for the pro-Russian side.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Please tell more about how that came to.

[-] Womble@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

The Hungarian uprising

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union (USSR).[nb 2] The uprising lasted 12 days before being crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on 4 November 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter of a million Hungarians fled the country.[5][6]

Consequently, Hungarians organized into revolutionary militias to fight against the ÁVH; local Hungarian communist leaders and ÁVH policemen were captured and summarily executed; and political prisoners were released and armed. To realize their political, economic, and social demands, local soviets (councils of workers) assumed control of municipal government from the Hungarian Working People's Party (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja). The new government of Imre Nagy disbanded the ÁVH, declared Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact, and pledged to re-establish free elections. By the end of October the intense fighting had subsided.

The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.[7][8]

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you!

I thought Hungary somehow perverted an old "good" denomination, that cleared it up well and good; a tankie is and has always been a soviet bootlicker.

Hey Fidecz you autocratic buffoons. Please move to Russia if you want to live in it so much. Hungarians are sick of your garbage.

[-] zebbedi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

When the country is putins cum sponge

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Austria, you listening? Time to get the team back together, I think.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Austria is very much right-wing too, so they'd be down for some anschluss action.

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