Moscow ordered Hungarian embassy and consulate staff out just weeks after Budapest expelled 10 Russian diplomats on national security grounds in September, the first such move by Hungary since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. #Russia #Hungary #DiplomaticTensions
Thousands of members of parliament across the Western world will receive this letter. We should not expect them to solve our problems. But we cannot allow the new Brussels-backed Hungarian government misrepresent what is really happening while they are trying to build a system of https://t.co/rfCmrBtw5Y #Hungary #PoliticalIssues #EuropeanUnion #EU #HU
The “Hungarian Caligula” has now picked a new target: a right-wing female influencer @vyrag sitting in the visitors’ gallery of Parliament. He insulted her from the floor. When she answered back that she would not tolerate his lies, she was escorted out by parliamentary guards - https://t.co/MsfzMTXJ5C #HungarianPolitics #Influencer #FreedomOfSpeech #HU
This photo shows a former Hungarian minister saying goodbye to his family before being taken to prison. Fuel prices are soaring. Families and businesses are struggling. The new government scrapped the protected fuel price system and is doing nothing meaningful to bring prices https://t.co/PzgQ0CiGji #Hungary #FuelCrisis #GovernmentFailure #HU
The era of political show trials are back! Today the authoritarian rule in Hungary reached a new low. The judiciary is acting on the PM's personal instructions. Two months ago, during a heated outburst at the session of the Hungarian Parliament, PM Péter Magyar accused Balázs #Hungary #Authoritarianism #Judiciary #HU
Neo-communist tactics. The Tisza authoritarian rulers are raising taxes, fuel prices are soaring, and they are wrecking the Hungarian economy. Authoritarianism creates new victims every day. Today it’s them, tomorrow it’s you. They would rather stage political theatre than face https://t.co/1nAu7d15FJ #Authoritarianism #Hungary #EconomicCrisis #HU
This is the political arbitrariness of the communist 1950s, unfolding in Hungary in real time. You can watch it live on @PM_ViktorOrban’s Facebook page: a former Hungarian minister is being arrested following a direct and public demand by Péter Magyar, the Hungarian Prime https://t.co/rKrJ9Y0Z59 #Hungary #Communism #PoliticalArrest #HU
This is the political arbitrariness of the communist 1950s, unfolding in Hungary in real time. You can watch it live on @PM_ViktorOrban’s Facebook page: a former Hungarian minister is being arrested following a direct and public demand by Péter Magyar, the Hungarian Prime #Hungary #Communism #PoliticalArrest #HU
A 1950s-style political prosecution is taking place in the Hungarian Parliament. The Prime Minister openly threatens MPs. Their families and Fidesz parliamentary group stand with them. They do not run away. Then the police are sent into Parliament to drag elected MPs out. This https://t.co/B9URdGuGAm #HungarianParliament #PoliticalProsecution #Fidesz #HU
The new Hungarian dictator is being charged with getting drunk, getting into an argument with a guy at a bar, stealing his phone and throwing it in the river. @magyarpeterMP doesn’t even deny he did it. How is such an unstable person a Prime Minister in an EU country!? 🇭🇺 #Hungary #Dictatorship #EULeadership #HU
The EPP majority in the Hungarian Parliament led by Péter Magyar illegally removed the President of Hungary from office a few months ago and planted their own candidate, Mr Baka. Péter Magyar then forced the prosecutor general to resign through threats. (And many other heads of #Hungary #Politics #EPP #HU
No victims in any category below have been double-counted. Outside Peru, no war-related deaths or imprisonments have been included. Communism vs. Villagers 400,000 dead — Cambodian rural (1) 19.5 million dead — Chinese peasants (2) 250,000 dead — Ethiopian nomads (3) 5 million dead — Soviet peasants (4) 340,000 dead — Tibetan rural (5) Communism vs. Landowners 3 million dead — Chinese landowners (6) 100,000 dead — Vietnamese landowners (8) Note: Soviet kulaks are counted among the villagers. Communism vs. Religion 47,000 dead — Cambodian Buddhists (9) 13,000 imprisoned — Czech priests / religious (10) 7,000 imprisoned — Mozambican Jehovah’s Witnesses (11) 100,000 imprisoned — North Korean Christians (12) 2,100 imprisoned — Polish priests & Jehovah’s Witnesses (13) 200,000 dead — Soviet clergy (15) 2,000 dead — Tibetan monks & pilgrims (18) 400 dead — Romanian Christians (14) Moreover, Christians suffered the following in Romanian prison: In a “baptism of immersion,” inmates’ heads were plunged into buckets of urine and feces, while guards chanted baptismal rites. Near the point of drowning the Christian’s head was let up for air and then plunged back into the sewage (65). Communism vs. Cossacks 400,000 dead or deported ethnics (20) Photo: Bolshevik instructions on “the need to do away with the cossacks.” (21) “Order no.7: In the event of an unauthorized exit of a registered [Cossack] family, the family shall be shot.” “Order no. 8: This execution shall be carried out among every family member.” “Order no. 9: All property of the executed [Cossack] shall be confiscated and given to the poor.” Communism vs. Native Americans 6,000 dead — Ashaninka (Peru/luminoso-22) 5,000 imprisoned — Ashaninka (Peru/luminoso-22) 10,000 forcibly relocated — Ashaninka (Peru/luminoso-22) 35 destroyed — Ashaninka communities (Peru/luminoso-22) 35,000 imprisoned or forcibly relocated — Nicaraguan tribesmen (Sandinistas-23) Communism vs. Unclassified Dissidents* 5,000 dead — Albanian dissidents (24) 10,000 dead — Angolan dissidents (25) 29,000 dead — Bulgarian dissidents (26) 1 million dead — Cambodian dissidents (27) 43 million dead — Chinese dissidents (28) 16,000 dead — Cuban dissidents (29) Moreover, in Cuba’s concentration camps, inmates faced the following “punishments.” They were forced to “cut grass with their teeth,” endure “mock executions,” live in iron cages “1 meter wide, 1.8 meters high,” sit for hours in toilet ditches, withstand shock treatment, die by the hundreds from starvation and lack of medical attention (30). 44,000 dead — East German dissidents (31) 10,000 dead — Ethiopian dissidents (32) 50,000 dead — Hungarian dissidents (33) 3,000 dead — Nicaraguan dissidents (34) Moreover, 11,000 Nicaraguans were tortured at the hands of the Sandinistas. This included their being skinned alive & then executed; drawn & quartered; forced to watch wives and daughters sexually assaulted; caged in cubicles less than a square meter; “punished” via electric shock; deprived food and water (35). 1.6 million dead — North Korean dissidents (36) 21,857 dead — Polish dissidents (37) 120,000 dead — Romanian dissidents (38) 8 million dead — Soviet dissidents (39) 425,000 dead — Tibetan dissidents (40) Moreover, Tibetans suffered the following atrocities at the hands of the Chinese. They faced: crucifixion drowning beheading boiling alive burying alive mutilation (41) Communism vs. Gay Rights 25,000 imprisoned — Cuban gays and other “deviants” (42) 500 dead — Peruvian gays, bisexuals, and transgendered (43) 11,000 arrested — Polish gays (44) 100,000s imprisoned — Soviet gays in slave labor camps (45) Moreover, Chinese gays were targeted for persecution although numbers are impossible to quantify (46). Communism vs. Collective Laborers 160 dead — East German strikers (47) demonstrators killed after protesting a 10% increase in work quotas. 110 dead — Nicaraguan strikers executed by the Sandinistas after demanding back pay (48). 31 dead — Novocherkassk strikers (Kruschev) 24 killed on the spot; 7 later executed; over 100 workers arrested. (49) 51 dead — Peruvian union leaders (50) 106 dead — Polish strikers Poznan demonstrators killed after protesting working conditions & pay issues; others killed in later strikes; thousands attacked by military (51). 3,000 dead — Soviet strikers (Lenin / Trotsky) some shot / others, as N. Werth describes, “loaded onto barges and then thrown by the hundreds into the Volga with stones around their necks” (52). Moreover; Massive factory protests in China — strikers beaten back by 30,000 red soldiers after disputing wages (53). Striking outlawed in Cuba (54). Organizers sentenced to as many as 26 years in prison (55).
Very good news that Hungary finally has access to the funds that Hungarian students and teachers were entitled to in the first place, but which you openly and obviously withheld as a form of political blackmail. (These funds have always gone to the students and teachers #Hungary #Education #PoliticalAccountability #HU
Good news for Hungarian students and researchers! 🇪🇺🔬 Today, the Commission proposed lifting the measures affecting access to Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe. When reforms deliver results, opportunities reopen. https://t.co/9xQavDU3qT #ErasmusPlus #HorizonEurope #EducationOpportunities #HU #EU
Hungary has taken important steps to strengthen the rule of law and protect the Union’s financial interests. And reforms deliver results. Today, we are proposing to unlock €4.2 billion and reopen the doors of Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe to Hungarian students and researchers. https://t.co/temnQYvACK #Hungary #RuleOfLaw #ErasmusPlus #HU
According to a new government bill submitted to the Hungarian Parliament, Brussels is finally getting what it has been demanding for years, and the gender lobby is also getting what it wants. Parents would no longer have direct access to the pedophile registry. They would have https://t.co/1yNQiLnByJ #Hungary #GenderLobby #PedophileRegistry #HU #BE
🇺🇦🇭🇺 Węgry nie pozwolą na budowę magazynu ropy naftowej dla Ukrainy na swoim terytorium – @magyarpeterMP Chodzi o plany stworzenia w Węgrzech infrastruktury do magazynowania produktów naftowych, aby Ukraina mogła gromadzić zapasy poza zasięgiem rosyjskich ataków. Wcześniej, "Naftogaz" i węgierska firma MOL podpisały odpowiednie memorandum. "Magazyn, w sprawie którego firma MOL podpisała memorandum z ukraińskim "Naftogazem", nie zostanie zbudowany ani na granicy węgiersko-ukraińskiej, ani w żadnym innym miejscu" – oświadczył premier Węgier #Hungaria #Ukraina #Energia
As Speaker of the Hungarian Communities Working Group, I will keep pushing for these rights to be implemented. Ukraine has made commitments; now they must become reality. Minority rights are fundamental to Europe and must be fulfilled as part of Ukraine’s #EU accession process. #MinorityRights #UkraineEU #HumanRights #HU #UA #EU
Thousands protested in Budapest today against the Hungarian government's plan to shut down the Terror House Museum. In over 20 years it had more than 8 million visitors, Hungarians and foreigners alike, showing them the horrors of the Hungarian nazi and communist regimes, https://t.co/JLCBQOpoPV #Budapest #Protest #TerrorHouseMuseum #HU
