A couple of points that were not made in this video: -Orban's goverment massively subsidies fuel, food and other essentials within the country to keep them cheap. One of his main points is that any other party will remove these subsidies. -To afford these subsidies he makes deals with Russia (for the fuel) but also massively uses EU money to subsidies them. because of this Hungaries infrastructure is very poor and getting worse. Also education institutions and big companies that are not friends with Orban are either leaving the country or dying. -Almost everyone that is highly educated leaves hungary for better salaries and working oppertunities cause they simply don't exist anymore in hungary or you need to be very well connected. Hungaqries main export is cheap labor.
You don’t want new infrastructure trust me. In Portugal we built useless highways all over the country now we are paying for them, they were built by companies that were friends of the political parties at exorbitant prices and we pay heavy taxes. I would much rather have affordable food, fuel and essentials than highways. Also our train system is horrendous and expensive. To go from Porto (second biggest city) and Lisbon (capital) you pay 30€ in second class which in Portugal is an exorbitant amount of money. You can pay groceries for a week with that (if you don’t eat much).
@@mesa9724 I’m from the Netherlands and we got very good infrastructure. Trains are usually on time and run well (but it is expensive). If Hungary public transport infrastructure is abysmal and in certain parts nonexistent. So they 100% need it
One extra information about the subsidies which you should take with a pinch of salt. I had people who told me the goverments (Orban) buys from Russia, then sells it to the Hungarian people in a higher price while telling them they are paying less. I don't know if this is true, but the reasoning behind it was that in the EU Hungary should have one of the cheapest, yet it is still expensive while having subsidiesed and under table dealed with Russia annndd I could be wrong but you can look up the market price for it which is still cheaper than what Hungarians pays for it.
What high income jobs used to exist in Hungary? I would imagine Hungary was in the exact same situation as every ex-Warsaw Pact nation in that reintegration with Germany's economy absolutely blasted away the domestic economy
Fuel subsidies is factually incorrect. Its one of the most heavily taxed commodity (the others are tobacco and alcohol) in the country. The special excise tax on fuel (95 benzin) in 2023 was 125 HUF/liter, in 2024 it will raised to 152 HUF/liter (1 liter 95 benzin costed 580 HUF at MOL on 2024.01.19.). On top of this excise tax comes VAT, wich is 27%. You can calculate from this, that without taxes benzin would be 298 HUF/liter.
When talking of Hungary include also this : Francesco Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy, September 1924: "No country was perished more viciously in Trianon than Hungary. But this country is dwelled by spiritually strong people, who won't be resigned to the demolition of their country. Hungary's dismembering is so dishonourable that no one takes responsibility for it. Everybody acts like they don't know about it, everybody is in coy silence. The reference to the right of nations' self-determination is only an untrue formula... they misused their victory in the most vicious way... There's no French, English or Italian who would accept the conditions forced to Hungary for their own nation..." Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for 8 years, 1925: "This treaty is no work of statesmen, but the result of severe and fatal deceptions." Vladimir Iljic Lenin: "The treaty was forced down their throat, but this is a usurious treaty, the treaty of murderers and butchers... unprecedented, predacious treaty... this is no treaty, these are conditions that scampsmen dictate with knives in their hands to unprotected victims." Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the U.K., in his speech on the 7th of October, 1929: "The whole documentation that we received from our allies at the peace talk, was deceitfuland untrue. We came to a decision on false principles" Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the U.K.: "The result of the Treaty of Trianon in Europe is not peace, but the fear of another war."
Not Greater Hungary. Its proper name is the Hungarian Kingdom. Only neighbouring countries use Greater Hungary, like Greater Romania, as if it was just a temporary 30 year formation. The Hungarian Kingdom stood for a 1000 year and Hungary will stay for many more.
This just shows that not every dictator seizes power. At times, the people give it to them and allow them to keep it. There's a lot of social engineering at work here.
The Eu can and should serve the Russia Eu link - at the russia border - regardless of the cost to EU - rich and famous. Time for the EU - to be the EU - for the people. When the EU acts decisively - everyone will - "Get it."
@@walkfaster Orban riging an entire society..... within in decade while people were working abroad, seeing how the western world works in an non EU isolated country....WOW, YOU ARE CLUELESS!!! Do you even know what was before Orbán???? Complete disorganization, corruption of the courts and all public services, chaos and bankruptcy. That's what existed before and the person who brought that was the current leader of the opposition... who really should be in Jail.... but I guess we don't have a democracy so we just let him remain in politics. SERIOUSLY??? What world do you live in? This video is brought to you by the EU who wants exactly what Hungary was before Orbán. They can go sit on it and twirl!
Orbán is most definitely NOT a dictator. He has our popular support - as long as he delivers. We prefer him to combat the BS coming from the EU and it's Cultural Marxist leaders. Not sure why those EU politicians think they are our bosses who can tell us how to live... But we are used to this BS from the West, always happened throughout our history. Hungary learned how to fight the Western bullying long ago, it became part of our national character in the past centuries... It also doesn't help that the West tries to sell us our very own ex-Communist politicians as the present Progressive heroes of Democracy...
Because the US does it better or something? Or liberalist Germany? Don't get me wrong, i sure do love Germany for re-opening all it's coal plants and having high taxes for no appearant reason. Don't act like Hungary isn't the same as any western hell-hole, the difference being that over here we at least have kept some of our traditions. If we could elect a king, we would. Wouldn't make us any worse than the US with it's two party system.
The communism engineered this society, numbed us down, so whoever grabs power, can take advantage on us. Until this bad blood will die out to the last man. Then we might be free.
@@-WMD-Edutainment Change the channel on the TV, then you will hear it. Until you watch only Orban-censored media, you won't see what's happening in the country.
You totally missed the point. I doubt most people wanted to remove democracy from their country. The ooint is that even if hes popular, he has overused its powers to crush the Hungarian democracy
@@joelimbergamo639 Lol.... no he hasn't. You've been dupped by this video as it is not based on anything actually factual. It's opinion based and twisted to look factual. Read some other comments and turn on "all comments". I think you'll be surprised.
@@joelimbergamo639 Anyone who says there is no democracy in Hungary is seriously bullshitting. Orban's policies are popular in Hungary, especially foreign policy and EU policy. Some of his internal policies are debatable, but luckily in Hungary we live in a democracy where freedom of speech rules, so we can debate those policies.
Finn Hungarian relationship theory were popular during Communist and Habsburgs time. New evidences not supporting that theory anymore. I am a Hungarian guy and for us learning Finnish is one of the most difficult language, compared to any other languages.
The predecessors of these languages separated like 5,000 years ago but there are similar words. HUN FIN ENG alatt alla under könny kyynel tear kéz käsi hand vér veri blood szem silmä eye vaj voi butter méz mesi honey tél talvi winter él elä to live tudom tiedän I know ...and many more.
@@timfei8435 Hingarians are not Slavs. Period. Hungarian language doesn’t descend from Proto-Slavic. It doesn’t even descend from Proto-Indo-European, which is the mother of the Slavic languages. Hungarian’s immediate proto-language is Proto-Ugric and its mother is Proto-Uralic. Because it descends from these, it is classified as belonging to the Ugric branch of the Uralic family.
@@valevisa8429 1784. The Transylvanian Hungarian Assembly in Kolozsvar petitioned Emperor Joseph II to recognize the Vlachs as a "nation". Instead, the Emperor abolished even the rest of the Transylvanian constitution, dissolving the "three nation" concept. Two months later the "Vlach rebellion", led by Horia, Closka and Crisan, ignited the Central Mountain districts and the lower Maros valley. Hugh Seton-Watson writes about it in his book "Eastern Europe" (Archon Books, England, 1962) on pages 59-60: "Rumanian historians are inclined today to treat this as a nationalist rising. But the movement was essentially a sociat revolt of the peasant masses against the structure of the feudalistic Monarchy. The rebellion brought unprecedented horror to Hungarian towns and villages. Drunk Vlachs ruthlessly tortured, maimed and murdered thousands of men, women and children. Well informed sources claimed that Horia, the master-mind of the rebellion, received instructions in Vienna from the Emperor himself, who wanted to punish the "rebellious Hungarians" for demanding the re-establishment of the Constitution and the Congress. Though the leaders of the rebellion were finally executed by the Austrian troops, the villages where the Hungarian population was killed out, were donated by special decree to the same Vlachs who did the killing. Another example of the Habsburg methods of playing one nationality group against the other."
@@valevisa8429 1848. The Hungarian Liberty War errupted under the leadership of Louis Kossuth. The Hungarian National Assembly proclaimed the Republic. Transylvania was re-united with the Mother-Land. The Transylvanian Assembly in Kolozsvar voted in favour of equal rights for the Vlachs (Rumanians). (See: M. Ghyka "A Documented Chronology of Rumanian History" Blackwell, Oxford, 1941.) In spite of this, the Transylvanian Vlachs again launched a well organized attack against Hungarian towns and villages, in support of the Habsburg forces. "These Wallachians committed such dreadful crimes against the elderly, women and children" wrote Mme. Lebergere, an eyewitness, whose memoirs were later published in Paris "that even the Austrians were ashamed at what was going on under their authority. The password was: total extermination of the Magyars!" T. Karsa writes in "Remarks on the Daco-Roman theory", Toronto, 1964 page 4: "The Wallachian peasants totally exterminated the Hungarian population of Nagyenyed, Abrudbanya and Zalatna. They annihilated one half of the Hungarian population in the district of Hunyad."
@@valevisa8429 1849. In spite of all the odds the heroic armies of the Hungarian Republic won every battle against the Imperial forces, until the new Emperor, the 16 years old Franz Joseph I called upon the Czar of Russia for aid. One hundred thousand Russian troops stormed into the Carpathian Basin, and the Liberty War was crushed. On October 6, thirteen Hungarian generals were executed in Arad. Thousands of others were imprisoned. An era of brutal terror and oppression descended upon the country, called the "Bach Age", referring to Baron Alexander Bach, Imperial Minister of Internal Affairs.
@@valevisa8429 1867. Due to diplomatic pressure from without and the unique statesmanship of Ferenc Deak from within, emperor Franz Joseph I made peace with Hungary. Austria and Hungary became "equal partners" within the frame-work of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. Constitutional parliamentary system was re-established. Transylvania again became re-united with Hungay. All "special national privileges were abolished, and the equality of all citizens proclaimed, irrespective of race, creed or language." (C.A. Macartney: Hungary and Her Successors, page 262.( The Constitution of Dec.21. 1867 was the masterpiece of liberal ideologists. It contained the complete catalogue of the basic human rights, limited the power of the government, introduced the responsibility of the cabinet, and contained directives concerning the equality of all nationalities. (Haraszti: Ethnic History of Transylvania, page 114. (The well known Rumanian scholar, Onisifor Ghibu writes in his book "Viata si organizatea bisericeasca si scolari in Transylvania" (1915): "As an autonomous body, the Rumanian Greek Oriental Church in Hungary and Transylvania, by virtue of the rights ensured in 1868, administers, directs and manages independently its own ecclesiastical and educational affairs and trust funds in every respect . .. school-inspectors have no authority over our schools . . . parents are free to send their children to the school of their choice. In all Rumanian schools in Hungary and Transylvania the language of instruction is exclusively Rumanian.".1883 Fearing Russia, the Kingdom of Rumania enters into alliance with the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
When talking of Hungary include this : NATO's first secretary general, Hastings "Pug" Ismay, famously declared that the organization's mission was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." NATO's mission has not changed in the more than seventy years since 1952 when the organisation founded to oppose the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union fell apart more than thirty years ago, and Russia is not the Soviet Union of old, and left Eastern Europe voluntarily leaving NATO without a mission, and yet the U.S. occupation forces remained in Germany consistent with the original NATO mission statement mentioned above? Russian President VIladimir Putin has claimed that he once raised the possibility of Russia joining NATO with then-President Bill Clinton, and that Clinton said he had "no objection." America remains as committed as ever to keeping the Germans down and preventing Europe from becoming a peer competitor by sabotaging Germany's burgeoning economic co-operation and partnership with Russia, which would have benefited all of us, and this was most vividly demonstrated by the destruction of Nordstream by the U.S., effectively an act of war on Germany. The war in Ukraine was supposed to accomplish two American foreign policy objectives, the first being to bring Russia to its knees economically and the second being to weaken Germany and Europe. Whilst the U.S. has failed abjectly in achieving the first objective, the EU appears to be trapped in a death spiral with industry now unable to rely on cheap energy from Russia relocating out of Germany and the EU while America profits from substituting it's own more expensive gas and it's insatiable Military Industrial Complex earning bilions from supplying new arms and ammunition to Ukraine and to replenish depleted European stocks.
U do know that the little angry Austrian mustache man was technically democratically elected, right? It took him 10 YEARS of first gaming the system from within before he destroyed it and became the dictator. The similarities between his rise and Orban's are waaaay to close for comfort.
Surprised to see the Hungarian minority being mentioned as a political factor. At most they contributed with 1-2 members in a parliament of 199 (so roughly 1%). The reason why they were granted citizenship is a complex issue: the main benefit of it is not political, but economical: many of them choose to move to Hungary from Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and the Ukraine and help soften the effects of population decline. Even with this added workforce, Hungary still had to invite workers from the Philippines to stay competitive.
Another few important things, that should be added: 1, Orban has built an oligarchy, the same way as russia and ukraine. They use governmental powers, to take over rival companies, and use them to pay his cronies. Also, they are coming for everything. And I mean, literally EVERYTHING, that can make money. 2, Work is often scarce in certain region, and your only option is to work for an Orban oligarch, or get social benefits from the local council. But, you only have these options, if they know, that you are politically loyal, or you can go hungry, for all they care. 3, More than third of the eligible population, doesn't vote. When he says "democratic support", and 2/3-ds super majority, he means, about 2 million or less people voted for him, from the 8 million eligible voters. 4, He has already set up an "academy system"(MCC, Mathias Corvinus Collegium), to try to brainwash more young people (high school and university aged) with money and privileges, and to supply new party members and puppets 5, He has basically payed the catholic church, to support him in everything. He has priests playing political advocates on cermons, telling people, how to vote for him, and pushing his propaganda. 6, He is purposely taken over all aspects of education, forcefully handing over government/local council schools to christian churches, continuously devolving government-run institutions, and forcing universities to adapt a new model, that includes a political commissar (sure, it's called a chancellor), to do his bidding. and I could go on, but the point is, that he is turning the country into a dictatorship, with every step he makes.
1 Proof? 2 Not true at all. If it is, proof? 3 Then why don't they participate in the voting. A majority is still a majority. 4 Accusation. 5 No bases of this claim. 6Thats not how it is. You just throwing around accusations You say he is a dictator but where is the proof of that? And just for contest I am not o Fidesz supporter.
@@Horizontal77 They did the exact same things , but since they are the left it is good that they did it . They enriched the ppl around them , they made reforms in education to promote their ideology , they had control over the media in the same way , they created pointless jobs for poor ppl and payed them from taxes to make unemployment look good etc . Basically 1 is the devil the other is its twin . There is only 1 major difference , the left is loyal to the current western establishment and its supported by it while the right has some miniscule amount of loyalty to the locals and tries to avoid alliances and subjugation and look for good deals.
A guy called Babiš recently tried the same thing in my country. Luckily he is far less competent and charismatic. But the risk is still there that Czechia will soon follow just like Slovakia.
While I don't agree with Orban, you can't blame his supporters for agreeing to keep migration out. Hungary was very open throughout history to accept people coming in hence the reason why so many different culture lived in Great Hungary. Then came the big cut down which was heavily culture based. They literally took those parts out which had people of different culture. Imagine cutting out London for having so many culture there and creating The Country of London... At this point the French Trianon decision made Hungary so anti migration.
@@adrianvintila5077 Obviously there was. But also there was multiple times when Hungarian kings invitet people to repopulate parts of the courtry after invading force literally wiped it out. Ottoman invasion, Mongol Invasion for example. Now they have problem with a few thousands migrants? Guess why... A few hundred people could decide in Trianon if a village stays in Hungary or goes to another country...
@@adrianvintila5077 Oh no!? The Germans, Slavs, Kumens, Iasigs, Pechenyegs, Jew fleeing pogroms in Tsarist Russia, Serbs fleeing the Ottomans, etc. ALL let in. You fail history.
I’m Hungarian. I dream of a real and robust democratic landscape capable of rejecting populism. However I’m afraid it’s an uphill battle over here… The demographic contingent that could massively shift the political climate are the younger generations. The exact demographic that is shrinking, disinterested or have already left the country for a better life elsewhere… Therefore expecting this to change any time soon seem Illogical. To conclude most of us in Hungary desire a real democracy with separation of powers, free media, proper checks and balances. It’s just that more than half of the country has been lead to believe that it is already the case, through various vehicles of deception, distortion, concentration of media outlets etc.
Populism and democracy are related concepts but not synonymous. Populism often involves a focus on the concerns of ordinary people against an elite or establishment. While democracy seeks to represent the will of the people through elections, populism can sometimes undermine democratic principles by oversimplifying complex issues or by concentrating power in charismatic leaders. Populist movements can exist within democratic systems, but they can also pose challenges to democratic norms and institutions. @@jerrymiller9039
The 80 years of relative peace the world enjoyed after WW2 is ending. Thanks to destabilizing things like climate change, demographic changes, and just general entropy, people will be seeking out populism for the security it says it offers. The security of being told what to think and do.
@@jerrymiller9039 The big problem, however, is that when you own all the media and control public opinions (like Orban, Hitler, Stalin etc. do) then you aren't truly popular - you're just depriving your population of information to think that you're popular.
Lots of good points have been raised by other commentators that give more context. The part I would like to expand is the mention of Lajos Simicska, 'the businessman who got ruined by Orban when he turned against him' Please do NOT feel sorry for Mr Simicska, he is just as guilty as Orban in making Fidesz what it is today. He used to be the treasurer for the party and owned a media empire that pushed its propaganda, making him the richest man in Hungary for almost a decade. After their falling out with Orban, he tried fighting back by embracing the far-right Jobbik, but in the end he just decided its not worth it and gave up most of his business interests in order to get away unscathed. On the topic of gay marriage and adoption: Orban did not ban anything, those were never even legal options in Hungary, and in most East European countries they still are not legal. Its a slow progress to make them legal, but it fits in the general trend.
refusing migrants, and outlawing chopping of genitalia or certain to adopt, and abolishing income tax on large families? sounds incredibly based to me.
@@GaryVR The EU is the problem. The EU creates the problem, for Hungary. EU wants Hungary to have mass migration… or else! EU wants Hungary to teach young children about sexuality… or else! EU wants Hungary to fund war… or else! Hungary is good! EU is corrupt thieves.
If Hungary was booted from the EU I imagine his support would crumble with the economy. Once the Ukraine war finishes, it'll be time for the EU to have less-than-quiet words with Orban.
No the EU will continue to grandstand while ultimately doing nothing because they are unable to replace Russia as a key import/export market and demanding a sovereign nation essentially destroy itself is completely unreasonable. Which is why the USA destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline
breaking ties with russia would mean more wind energy and solar panels. but breaking ties with the EU would mean the end of the whole Hungarian industry. it only exists because of the customs union. leaving the EU would have catastrophic consequences to Hungary but I guess the Orban government would have always someone else to blame@@IRGodful
@@Oendikla how suitable is the Hungarian environment to wonder and solar generation? Germany's green energy grid is garbage except for the Baltic wind farms, which Hungary doesn't border
My mom (an American) used to teach at CEU, she really liked it and is still pissed about Orban kicking it out, despite her not having been anywhere in Europe in 20 years
I criticized your last video because it was too hypothetical, but this one was really good so i must praise it. This is what i expected from this channel from the beggining, glad I stuck around. Good job and keep it going. 🙂
And we're going to see more governments like this going forward. Simply put, people will only tolerate being forced to suffer for the sake of outsiders for so long before they side with the first person that tells them what they want to hear.
the main issue with these kinds of people are that they are massivly corrupt. this doesn't mean that left leaning goverments or people aren't but as of right now far right wing goverments have a reputation to be far more corrupt. Orban is a very good example of this.
Yep... I don't think any of these politicians are the answers to our problems, but the thanks to the chaos it's just too easy for the man with all the answers to get traction. We know what happens when that goes too far, and politics founded on grievances always go way too far. Even if the grievances are founded through a genuine injustice and suffering, the end results are always a zero sum game. This was never going to end well
@@mesa9724 What kind of fascist textbook are you reading where they whitewashed the German ethnically cleansed each nation they invaded? Do Hungarians not cover it, because they were deeply involved in German war crimes?
@@Obscurai Except he doesn't. just because this guy says he does, doesn't make it true. Read some other comments... some people break down the flaws in this video really well.
@@joenemeth4826 Flaws in the video are not the issue. He is still concentrating power in the presidency and that is the issue. He's not a dictator in the full definition but his actions shows his tendencies for power concentration. Flaws in the video are just typical "whataboutism" and a distraction from the issue of proper governance.
Coming from Singapore, I can see many similarities between his policies and ours. We also ban any foreign funded NGO, especially ones affiliated with George Soros. He seems a bit more unnecessarily antagonistic though, should get along better with his EU peers.
Well, there is a reason why Hungary has low fertility and new existing countries like Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania have much better living standards than Hungary
The Baltic nations have always been very wealthy, due to their ability to trade through the Baltic Sea. (You might notice Hungary is landlocked) Also Hungary has one of the best fertility rates in Europe, so I don't know what you're trying to say with that
I'm a Hungarian, and there are a lot of people just like me, who'd never vote for him. Take into account the gerrymandering pls. I don't feel represented by anyone in this government
2:24 damn this map is all messed up, from start to finish… (btw the info about the polish government is outdated and has been for a few months now. Do better)
Orbán is a brilliant politician. Hungary is the only country in Europe where there are no political prisoners, full press and freedom of opinion, no anti-Semitic riots, etc. This is precisely why the West is attacking Orbán. They cannot bear that the leader of a small country like Hungary can lead the country more wisely than the much bigger powers.
@@REBACK7 I would say that while there is deffinately propoganda..... take a look around at western media around the world. It is all bought and paid for by their respective governments. Countries like Canada are constantly attacking independent media and are using communist tactics to manipulate the truth or delay investigations on itself. It is slowly failing but all major media in that country has been bought. You've been had. So relatively speaking...since there are acutal radio stations, newspapers and tv stations which are free to operate which support an open and opposing view... it si realative "full freedom of the press".
Something you didnt mention is how the MCC is funding and supporting right wing populists in the West like Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Peter Boghossian etc
Before the 2010 election he promised to hold the previous prime minister accountable. Where is the previous prime minister now? In the government. Earning as much money in a month as you earn in a year (or more).
@@gabor6259 and? The EU claims to support democracy but for example Ursela was not even named as a candidate until after the voting was done. Then they threw out all the named candidates and selected her in a closed door meeting. That is not what democracy looks like
@@joenemeth4826 there is absolutely zero chance that you know more about the EU than me. Not being arrogant, but I have a job and so do you, and I doubt they’re in the same field
I hardly comment on a UA-cam video but I feel this has to be told. Please tune down the BGM or increase the vocal volume. It's really difficult to follow the narration at times. This is the case with all the context matters videos. This isn't much of a problem with EE videos.
This death spiral of makingg enemies of everyone is obviously not sustainable in the long run, but veryy profitable for those who get to rob these "undesirables". I'm not shure who started this trend of campaigning with "defeating the enemy" but they deserve huge the royalties for it from around the world.
I mean, it depends on your living standards. If you from Asia go for it, not there literally Romania which is much better country for living standards if you want to live in east part of Europe
I've just moved back from "perfect" Canada to "horrible" Hungary. Much more work opportunities in Hungary than in Canada, and you can afford more on your salary than just paying your rent and food....
So many Slavic countries are simply being missed out on the map at 2:20, also Romanian is romance Lagrange. Denmark, Iceland,Uk, Netherlands, partly Belgium Luxembourg and Switzerland is also Germanic, this map is out of wack. Worst I have seen in any channel.
Wine in Greek is not "κρασί" (krasi) as you write in the map but "οίνος" (pronounced "inos"), it passed into Latin and then all the Latin-based languages got their derivatives.
@@gabor6259 In ancient Greece they always drank wine mixed up with water ( 1:3 up to 1:10 wine to water). "Krasi" means mixture. Fun-fact 1: it was frown upon to drink unmixed wine, you were considered to be a degenerate or a drunk. Fun-fact 2: in modern Greek we use both words to mean the same thing - unmixed wine. 'Krasi' is the common word that is used in the day-to-day life hence if you Google translate wine this is what you'll get. "Inos" on the other hand, is old fashion and used mostly in derivative words and on bottle labels to sound more authentic.
The victor Oban is the greatest leader who knows gravity of international politics and it is not only Hungrin people loved him I think more than Hungrin entire world like him there is no doubt he the best leader in the Europen Union.
Where do I begin to take this apart... 1) 1:14 - "Been in power longer than any other European leader" .... I don't know what to say to this. Maybe Europeans leaders at all should suck less? We're talking 13 years which is not exactly record breaking... and people were complaining already at 9 years as being extreme. There have been longer serving British, Australian and Canadian Prime Ministers not to mention Angela Merkel was in office for 16 years. This is hardly a point to make and also frankly inaccurate considering the last fact I stated, nice use of biased information though. 2) 1:23 - You used a clip from Peter Marki-Zay, who is currently under investigation and has also admiited of foreign funds financing a large majority of his campaign, which he is now denying of course. He was caught red handed getting financed by NGO's, a big no no in the majority of democratic countries in this world, 3) 3:20 - You are reffering to the migrant crisis (you say refugee which is inaccurate) of the mid-2010's as if it were the past tense. The migrant crisis continues today and started in 2015...if you use this in context than say it. Remember...Context Matters right? 4) 3:40 - You wash over the Treaty of Trianon as if it was perfectly ok what the west decided to do to Hungary after the war. First off, that image that was tweeted was not created by the Orban government but is an old graphic created shortly after the treaty was forcefully signed. Secondly, the graphic is accurate and justified as the west split the country apart not even taking cultural populations or lines into account and trapped roughly 50% of then's purely Hungarian population outside of its borders, after which point some were forcefully relocated from their homes, killed or sent to camps (post WWII to Siberia), or simply found themselves trapped across borders they could never cross again in thier lifetime leaving half of their families permanently split apart and broken. All in lands that belonged to Hungary for over 1000 years. Good Job west upholding human rights while you ran slave camps and colonies in Africa. Thirdly, the west gave Austria, the people and empire that originally started WWI parts of Hungary. What?? Fourthly, the treaty ended a few years ago, so technically all of those borders should have been returned the day it expired. If we truley live in a world that follows demokratic "rule of law" this would've happened and been all over the news or a greater negotiation should have happened....but the hypocrasy is strong with the west so of course they are ok with not enforcing the "rule of law" on themselves. For all of these reason are you surprised that this is still a big deal and we built a big wall commemorating how the west detroyed our country? Yeah.... think about it. And just to be clear, Croatia was never considered part of the true Kingdom of Hungary (youl called it "geater Hungary".... you can't even get that right as there was no such thing ever.) it was always considered a partnered state with autonomy. But of course you can use whatever language you like in your videos to diminish historical fact. Again you miss context. 5) 4:12-4:50 There's nothing wrong with this...every country should be doing these things if they are to survive. What exactly is wrong with this? You mention "critics" say that it is racist and then they twist things an talk about anti "race mixing". Orban has never said that, the media has made conclusions here that don't exist. He said love your country and love your history and love your roots. There is nothing wrong with that. A country without an identy will forget where it has been, how it got there, and will have an aimless future. National Identity is important to every country as long as it doesn't get to the point of "superior race" pushing. If you fail to understand this and it's roll through millenia, I can't help you. 6) 5:12 - You pull up video images that have no relation to Fidesz or Orbán and have been denounced by the party. These are more closely related to the now defunkt and confused Jobbik party. Stop using non-factual images to manipulate your narrative. You are using the wrong context here. 7) "Political Skill".... you talk about this like it's a bad thing. In politics you need political skill...so he has it.... and? If you are saying that the rest of the political leaders don't have this kind of skill, you are accurate but this would be true for any leader that has won any race. It's not really unique to Hungary. 8) "Went to a populist strategy". I keep hearing this word across all political landscapes as if it were a bad thing. Let me drop the formal definition here: "In politics, the word populist refers to someone who puts ordinary people's rights above those of the wealthy and powerful. It is basically a synonym of democrat, which when spelled with a lower-case d is simply a person who believes in democratic principles of rule by the people, freedom, and equality." If someone doesn't belive in this, what exatcly do they believe in? A non-democratic society??? 9) 7:31 - 7:40 - You washed over this guy as if he didn't matter. This guy is the greatest reason why Orbán is in power and continues to be in power. This guy, the current leader of the opposition, almost bankrupted the country (worse than greece) and when people discovered this and protested, sent un-marked police contractors against his own people, shooting at them and beating them, and refused to stand down as millions of people shouted for him to leave and resign. This guy should be in jail. Maybe someone should instead look at the advantage that this guy gives Orbán. As long as this guy and his wife is in politics, the opposition has no chance. They contradict themselves on a daily basis, steal money in every office they get in to (example, the current Budapest major is part of the opposition side of things and has managed to nearly bankrupt the city despite his Fidesz friendly competitor leaving the city with a massive surplus, hiring and paying his friends massive salaries etc.). Lately, even the purely independent ATV, which is the only place where opposition members speak, asked him a simple question as to why he didn't resign when his scandal broke out (in response to the president recently resigning for a relatively small scandal), to which he exploded and raised his voice and shook his finger as in how dare she suggest something like this. His wife is the granddaughter of the leader that made officer shoot into the crowd at the start of the revolution in 1956. They live in a house confiscated from Jews by the communists in the 1950's and handed to his wife's family. And this list goes on and on and on. If this guy were to dissapear and his influence were to dissapear, a real opposition party might materialize for once. You spent less than 10 seconds on this topic...one of the most important points which could explain everything.
@@thieph of course there was!!!! They were called byzantines, and were cleaned our along Franks germanics and then raided 20 more countries in 9th century and guess what? Vlachs werent anywhere untill the 10th century placed in the area by the byzantines 😂😂😂😂😂
I don’t know who lied to you about the US having a lot of wide reaching independent media? There two voices only - republicans and democrats, the differ in some social policies but everything else is the same narrative, specifically foreign policy
Including India in this list You got to be kidding me India was ruled by INC party for past 70 years and BJP is merely scored two 5 year terms😂 Man you don't know anything
I am unable to comment on the reality of Orban move on media control in Hungary I am confused about how you can compare him to PM Modi. As per most international rankings press freedom has only been increasing in India since he came to power, and so has liberalization on independent media. I can you please clarify what you meant
Don't worry about it. This video is mostly propoganda against people who don't support every ideology that the West wants, which includes PM Modi since he uses Russian Oil and doesn't take part in sanctions. There's about 5% truth then filled with twisting of facts and finally flat out lies. It's like he googled "Hungary dictator" and went with every headling he could find without actual context. One of the greatest disinformation pieces around.
Contiuned from previous comment:.... 10) 8:00 - You speak about citizens outside of the country having voting rights. You miss the fact that they can't actually vote for a representative, only a party, and that their votes only count for 1/4 of a single vote. In the last few elections, it was shown that many ballots that were mailed did not even make it back to the ballot box in time to make a difference (weeks late) and only a few thousand actually went to embassies to participate. This is just a feel good campaign for foreigners and doesn't really have an effect on any election outcomes. MAYBE if the election were to be determined by double digit, or even triple digit numbers (won by 20 or even 190 votes) this could be taken as the tilting factor...but alas...this is not the case. You spent more time talking about this than you talked about the previous point, disqualifying you from knowing anything about how the electoral system actually works. Caught talking out of context again 11) 8:38 - Proof that these were party loyalist? or is this speculation? Of course this was speculation, there are many instances where the current Judiciary went against the governmnet. The whole point of the reorganization in 2012 was to retire people left over from the old communist system, re-organize the system to elminiate communist era rules and update the rules surrounding its independence. There were many people in the judiciary at this time who still sympathized with ex communist leaders who, at that time, were still abundent within the political spectrum, and some who are still in politics today. Corruption in the judiciary was very high and this is well documented. 12) 9:34 - You talk about the press here. I challenge you to find any current democracy that doesn't do the practice that you say Orbán does. I admit, he is very blatent with this practice yet there are still independent TV stations and newspapers whtat circulate freely and abundently whereas in countries like Canada and Australia have all but shunned away independent media because of government criticisms. In these countries the governments have even gone so far as to directly fund the media, virtually silencing opposition. They only start to change their tune against the government when they can no longer hide the truth from the people. While I don't agree with this practice and I believe that all media should stand on its own feet, you argument here is moot because it's worse in other "free and democratic" countries. 13) 10:47 - You talk about favouring friends.... can you show me a western style democracy that doesn't do this? Corruption is rampant everywhere? What makes Hungary different? Nothing. Countries are in bed with local Mafia's, they are in bed to lobiest, leaders become millionaires when their salaries are only in the thousands (math doesn't add up). Again... I don't agree with this but you're talking about things that make Orbán unique like it's a special formula... this is not a special formula when everyone is in the same boat. 14) 11:45 - Again you talk about refugees.... the country has never been closed to REAL refugees.... they can get in line to be processed like the millions before them have been processed in Europe. The problem is that most of the people coming are illegal migrants, mostly young men without families or wives, with fake ID's, weapons and an unknown background. This is undisputed fact. And now Europe doesn't know what it has let in and several have been now identified as known members of terrorist organizations who have been walking around free for years. In its efforts to "feel good about itself", Europe has ruined its own security. 15) "Finding enemies" - This is the new way of most democratic societies. As an example there were far worse people than Trump, but the democrats have nothing to stand on so they've been dragging him through the mud for 4 years now in the hops of discrediting him. They seem to be failing. 16) Soros was financing migration, proven fact and admitted by him, and the EU is basically financing people smugglers and human trafficers. By these simple actions, Orbán is right to stand up to Brussels who loves to interfere in the politics of soverign states to fill their agenda or their pockets. How dare the EU give false hope and destroy lives. 17) CEU... you could say forced...but it also left voluntarily even after the university came to an agreement. 18) LGBTQ stuff.... Sweden has several lawsuits from people who have received gender change therapy before they were 18 saying that those operations ruined their lives because they changed their minds. Science is pretty clear on how the developing brain works and how old you have to be before it reaches stability. Banning these treatments under 18 should be adopted by all countries.... the science actually supports it...not to mention the deaths that have occured due to complications and the lawsuits that are currently in courts. The rest of the law was a law put in place not to confuse said children which science has proven can be easily confused at certain ages. What you do after you are 18 is still your business and nobody cares. As for the marriage thing.... well... it's a self identified Christian state.... so yeah... they have the right to enforce laws that protect their identity (refer back to national identity to understand this)...but if you don't understand this I can't help you. Go to a Muslim state and tell them they have to do this and let me know how this goes for you. So how did Orbán win power.... well simply, he is "someone who puts ordinary people's rights above those of the wealthy and powerful. It is basically a synonym of democrat, which when spelled with a lower-case d is simply a person who believes in democratic principles of rule by the people, freedom, and equality." Reference point 8 You spewing your own uneducated opinion actually undermines democracy because people think that if you present things a certain way that it has to be true and therefore you are skewing fact so that you can make your own opinion seem like the truth. I don't agree with some of the things the Hungarian government does, but I agree with the western governments less.
Many of the same tools can be seen being used in other countries, with different political leadership ideologies, such as Canada under Trudeau. The single biggest factor in a government like Orban's or Trudeau’s being possible, though, is that the government is large and omnipresent. This allows the elected leadership, regardless of ideology, many tools that aid in establishing what is effectively an elected dictatorship. This is also a growing problem where unelected powers within a society become too limited in idealogy. This includes things like media, judiciaries, education, etc. A healthy democracy is not a monoculture. It flourishes when there is real debate, covered by a fully honest, independent, and transparent media, and the foundations of the system are a key part of the education of the nation's citizens.
@@skmo7105 government funded media, seized bank accounts, CBC actively going to court to obstruct legal fair use of their material in a manner which they've never done to any other political party... And how about promising a new voting system, until they found out they couldn't get the one that would have made the Liberals the default government going forward (single transferable ballot, which Trudeau knew would have seen the Liberals be the second choice at worst on virtually every ballot). They tried to gerrymander the system, and only failed because the commission they appointed refused to give them the political cover they needed. That ended any changes. Look too at the attacks on various parts of the Canadian populace as being "un-Canadian" for holding different views. The willingness to use the Emergencies Act to break up a peaceful protest in Ottawa (one that caused far less problems, and lasted a shorter time, for that city than many farmers protests in places like Europe and India, where protesters weren't hit with ridiculously draconian measures (and then Trudeau has the nerve to lecture India's Modi on respect for people's rights 🤔🙄🤦🏼♂️). Trudeau has no more respect for political movements contrary to his own than Orban does. The only difference is Canada has a better Constitution (when the Supreme Court actually stands behind it, at least - they've been too willing to play the part of Liberal stooges, even as they seemed far less reticent to stand up to previous governments of all parties), or at least one that is more difficult to amend (unless you're the Quebec government). Orban and Trudeau are remarkably similar in intent. Fortunately, Canada isn't Hungary in many ways.
Good video but your analysis is missing some points. For example look at the economic policy and the difference between rich and poor people in Hungary. Also you could explain why Orban is aligning himself with Russia and so on
Orban didn't 'take over Hungary. He was duly elected by a majority several times. He represents his people more than the unelected bureaucrats in the EU represent theirs.
How about for once the US just keeps out of the internal matters of other countries and just minds its own fucking business for once , lets just watch what happens in Hungary , there is no need for the five eyes to act here . Let things take there natural courses .
People will only suffer so long before they realise that they are being drained for the good of outsiders when they do realise that the whole outside starts calling them oppressive and non democratic just to save their hold
@@mesa9724 "There is a great man, a great leader in Europe - Viktor Orban. He is the Prime Minister of Hungary. He is a very great leader, a very strong man. Some people don't like him because he's too strong.” - Donald Trump
@@mesa9724 “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius,’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine - of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.” - Donald Trump
What is the value to Europe to have Hungary held in stasis behind the Iron Curtain by orban putin? The EU needs to ability to self police and self regulate. clearly the assumption in EU rules was that countries in the EU - would not take direction from countries - outside of the EU. That seems like a solvable problem. I can only assume that the fine print in EU membership - has an answer. Time to use it. Slovakia too. Raise the cost to Orban for extra EU aligence. Raise the cost to putin for targeting EU member countries. My God how complicated can it be ?
" countries in the EU - would not take direction from countries - outside of the EU" What exactly are you infering here? A sovergn country, wheather they are in the EU or not, is not compelled to take direction from any other country at any time. They can, and do, give the middle finger back whenever they want. If a country had to follow everything the EU said, it would be no different than a requreiment to take orders from a central directorate, which is what the Soviet Union was..... we don't want that again.
The EU politicians are NOT our overlords! Hungary is a sovereign country, that voluntarily joined the EU, as one of it's equal members! EU membership was not given us as a gift by the West, it doesn't just benefit us, it benefits them, too! But the EU is NOT there to order us what to do, or how to live! And as for the war in the Ukraine and Putin: the enemy of Hungary isn't Russia, but the Ukraine! Why? Because the Ukraine occupies Hungarian territory Subcarpathia, and the Ukrainians oppress the Hungarian minority there! How the fuck does the EU expect us to support the fight for the territorial integrity of the Ukraine under these circumstances? Don't they know the history of this region? Doesn't the West know about the territorial and political consequences of the Trianon Treaty of 1920, that was enforced on Hungary by the West itself? Doesn't the West know about the territorial and political consequences of the 1947 Paris peace treaty ending WW2? Why are they pretending as if we were Putin's allies? Why are they pretending as if Orban was doing Putin's bidding, and not acting in the interests of the Hungarian nation and state? Makes zero sense!
I was watching very intently until I heard Orban speaking English. He sounds exactly like Gru from the Despicable Me movies. That got a good chuckle out of me.
A couple of points that were not made in this video:
-Orban's goverment massively subsidies fuel, food and other essentials within the country to keep them cheap. One of his main points is that any other party will remove these subsidies.
-To afford these subsidies he makes deals with Russia (for the fuel) but also massively uses EU money to subsidies them. because of this Hungaries infrastructure is very poor and getting worse. Also education institutions and big companies that are not friends with Orban are either leaving the country or dying.
-Almost everyone that is highly educated leaves hungary for better salaries and working oppertunities cause they simply don't exist anymore in hungary or you need to be very well connected. Hungaqries main export is cheap labor.
You don’t want new infrastructure trust me. In Portugal we built useless highways all over the country now we are paying for them, they were built by companies that were friends of the political parties at exorbitant prices and we pay heavy taxes. I would much rather have affordable food, fuel and essentials than highways. Also our train system is horrendous and expensive. To go from Porto (second biggest city) and Lisbon (capital) you pay 30€ in second class which in Portugal is an exorbitant amount of money. You can pay groceries for a week with that (if you don’t eat much).
@@mesa9724 I’m from the Netherlands and we got very good infrastructure. Trains are usually on time and run well (but it is expensive).
If Hungary public transport infrastructure is abysmal and in certain parts nonexistent. So they 100% need it
One extra information about the subsidies which you should take with a pinch of salt. I had people who told me the goverments (Orban) buys from Russia, then sells it to the Hungarian people in a higher price while telling them they are paying less. I don't know if this is true, but the reasoning behind it was that in the EU Hungary should have one of the cheapest, yet it is still expensive while having subsidiesed and under table dealed with Russia annndd I could be wrong but you can look up the market price for it which is still cheaper than what Hungarians pays for it.
What high income jobs used to exist in Hungary? I would imagine Hungary was in the exact same situation as every ex-Warsaw Pact nation in that reintegration with Germany's economy absolutely blasted away the domestic economy
Fuel subsidies is factually incorrect. Its one of the most heavily taxed commodity (the others are tobacco and alcohol) in the country. The special excise tax on fuel (95 benzin) in 2023 was 125 HUF/liter, in 2024 it will raised to 152 HUF/liter (1 liter 95 benzin costed 580 HUF at MOL on 2024.01.19.). On top of this excise tax comes VAT, wich is 27%. You can calculate from this, that without taxes benzin would be 298 HUF/liter.
When talking of Hungary include also this : Francesco Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy,
September 1924:
"No country was perished more viciously in
Trianon than Hungary. But this country is
dwelled by spiritually strong people, who won't
be resigned to the demolition of their country.
Hungary's dismembering is so dishonourable
that no one takes responsibility for it.
Everybody acts like they don't know about it,
everybody is in coy silence. The reference to
the right of nations' self-determination is only
an untrue formula... they misused their victory
in the most vicious way... There's no French,
English or Italian who would accept the
conditions forced to Hungary for their own
nation..."
Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom for 8 years, 1925:
"This treaty is no work of statesmen, but the
result of severe and fatal deceptions."
Vladimir Iljic Lenin:
"The treaty was forced down their throat, but
this is a usurious treaty, the treaty of murderers
and butchers... unprecedented, predacious
treaty... this is no treaty, these are conditions
that scampsmen dictate with knives in their
hands to unprotected victims."
Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the U.K., in his
speech on the 7th of October, 1929:
"The whole documentation that we received
from our allies at the peace talk, was deceitfuland untrue. We came to a decision on false
principles"
Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of
the U.K.:
"The result of the Treaty of Trianon in Europe is
not peace, but the fear of another war."
Thanks for posting that. It's absolutely right. It was disgraceful destruction of Hungary, who could not help but be with Austria on the losing side.
The same forces at work 100 years ago.
When talking of Hungary include that each and every village in Transylvania was built by Hungarians
Not Greater Hungary. Its proper name is the Hungarian Kingdom. Only neighbouring countries use Greater Hungary, like Greater Romania, as if it was just a temporary 30 year formation. The Hungarian Kingdom stood for a 1000 year and Hungary will stay for many more.
This just shows that not every dictator seizes power. At times, the people give it to them and allow them to keep it. There's a lot of social engineering at work here.
The Eu can and should serve the Russia Eu link - at the russia border - regardless of the cost to EU - rich and famous. Time for the EU - to be the EU - for the people. When the EU acts decisively - everyone will - "Get it."
@@walkfaster Orban riging an entire society..... within in decade while people were working abroad, seeing how the western world works in an non EU isolated country....WOW, YOU ARE CLUELESS!!! Do you even know what was before Orbán???? Complete disorganization, corruption of the courts and all public services, chaos and bankruptcy. That's what existed before and the person who brought that was the current leader of the opposition... who really should be in Jail.... but I guess we don't have a democracy so we just let him remain in politics. SERIOUSLY??? What world do you live in? This video is brought to you by the EU who wants exactly what Hungary was before Orbán. They can go sit on it and twirl!
Orbán is most definitely NOT a dictator. He has our popular support - as long as he delivers. We prefer him to combat the BS coming from the EU and it's Cultural Marxist leaders. Not sure why those EU politicians think they are our bosses who can tell us how to live... But we are used to this BS from the West, always happened throughout our history. Hungary learned how to fight the Western bullying long ago, it became part of our national character in the past centuries... It also doesn't help that the West tries to sell us our very own ex-Communist politicians as the present Progressive heroes of Democracy...
Because the US does it better or something? Or liberalist Germany? Don't get me wrong, i sure do love Germany for re-opening all it's coal plants and having high taxes for no appearant reason. Don't act like Hungary isn't the same as any western hell-hole, the difference being that over here we at least have kept some of our traditions. If we could elect a king, we would. Wouldn't make us any worse than the US with it's two party system.
The communism engineered this society, numbed us down, so whoever grabs power, can take advantage on us. Until this bad blood will die out to the last man. Then we might be free.
They don’t call him „dictator“ but Victator“ (Victor - Dictator)
As a Hungarian, never heard that.
@@-WMD-Edutainment look at European meetings
@@-WMD-Edutainment
Change the channel on the TV, then you will hear it. Until you watch only Orban-censored media, you won't see what's happening in the country.
@@Shaara1 The funny thing is that Viktor means victorious, or "Győztes" in Hungarian!
The Hungarians voted for him! That's how it happened!
Weird. So politicians try to find policies that the majority of people want?
You totally missed the point. I doubt most people wanted to remove democracy from their country. The ooint is that even if hes popular, he has overused its powers to crush the Hungarian democracy
@@joelimbergamo639 Lol.... no he hasn't. You've been dupped by this video as it is not based on anything actually factual. It's opinion based and twisted to look factual. Read some other comments and turn on "all comments". I think you'll be surprised.
@@joenemeth4826 sure, everything is false even if the TSJUE says so.
@@joenemeth4826 duped, biased You're wrong!
@@joelimbergamo639 Anyone who says there is no democracy in Hungary is seriously bullshitting. Orban's policies are popular in Hungary, especially foreign policy and EU policy. Some of his internal policies are debatable, but luckily in Hungary we live in a democracy where freedom of speech rules, so we can debate those policies.
As a Finn, we can somewhat understand the Estonians but we cannot basically understand Hungarian in any way. That's how isolated they are
Finn Hungarian relationship theory were popular during Communist and Habsburgs time. New evidences not supporting that theory anymore.
I am a Hungarian guy and for us learning Finnish is one of the most difficult language, compared to any other languages.
Isolated? Hungary is in the center of Europe, Finland is at the northern fringes.
The predecessors of these languages separated like 5,000 years ago but there are similar words.
HUN FIN ENG
alatt alla under
könny kyynel tear
kéz käsi hand
vér veri blood
szem silmä eye
vaj voi butter
méz mesi honey
tél talvi winter
él elä to live
tudom tiedän I know
...and many more.
They're not isolated. Their language is very different.
When talking of Hungary include how Hungarians fought in the American revolution and the American civil war to end slavery
2:20 How the hell is czech and slovak not a slavic language????
Who said they weren't?
Because it isn’t. The Magiars ate not slavs and their language group in Hungary Finish.
@@orestmakar8562Czechia and Slovakia and other majority Balkan nations are all Slavic
@@timfei8435 Hingarians are not Slavs. Period. Hungarian language doesn’t descend from Proto-Slavic. It doesn’t even descend from Proto-Indo-European, which is the mother of the Slavic languages. Hungarian’s immediate proto-language is Proto-Ugric and its mother is Proto-Uralic. Because it descends from these, it is classified as belonging to the Ugric branch of the Uralic family.
@@orestmakar8562the thread is talking about Czechia and Slovakia. READ FIRST
When talking of Hungary include how Hungary was the first country in europe to implement rights for minorities in 1848
Seems like those minorities were not happy at all with the rights granted,cuz at Trianon they all wanted out of Hungarian control.
@@valevisa8429 1784.
The Transylvanian Hungarian Assembly in Kolozsvar petitioned Emperor Joseph II to recognize the Vlachs as a "nation". Instead, the Emperor abolished even the rest of the Transylvanian constitution, dissolving the "three nation" concept. Two months later the "Vlach rebellion", led by Horia, Closka and Crisan, ignited the Central Mountain districts and the lower Maros valley.
Hugh Seton-Watson writes about it in his book "Eastern Europe" (Archon Books, England, 1962) on pages 59-60: "Rumanian historians are inclined today to treat this as a nationalist rising. But the movement was essentially a sociat revolt of the peasant masses against the structure of the feudalistic Monarchy. The rebellion brought unprecedented horror to Hungarian towns and villages. Drunk Vlachs ruthlessly tortured, maimed and murdered thousands of men, women and children. Well informed sources claimed that Horia, the master-mind of the rebellion, received instructions in Vienna from the Emperor himself, who wanted to punish the "rebellious Hungarians" for demanding the re-establishment of the Constitution and the Congress. Though the leaders of the rebellion were finally executed by the Austrian troops, the villages where the Hungarian population was killed out, were donated by special decree to the same Vlachs who did the killing. Another example of the Habsburg methods of playing one nationality group against the other."
@@valevisa8429 1848.
The Hungarian Liberty War errupted under the leadership of Louis Kossuth. The Hungarian National Assembly proclaimed the Republic. Transylvania was re-united with the Mother-Land. The Transylvanian Assembly in Kolozsvar voted in favour of equal rights for the Vlachs (Rumanians). (See: M. Ghyka "A Documented Chronology of Rumanian History" Blackwell, Oxford, 1941.)
In spite of this, the Transylvanian Vlachs again launched a well organized attack against Hungarian towns and villages, in support of the Habsburg forces. "These Wallachians committed such dreadful crimes against the elderly, women and children" wrote Mme. Lebergere, an eyewitness, whose memoirs were later published in Paris "that even the Austrians were ashamed at what was going on under their authority. The password was: total extermination of the Magyars!"
T. Karsa writes in "Remarks on the Daco-Roman theory", Toronto, 1964 page 4: "The Wallachian peasants totally exterminated the Hungarian population of Nagyenyed, Abrudbanya and Zalatna. They annihilated one half of the Hungarian population in the district of Hunyad."
@@valevisa8429 1849.
In spite of all the odds the heroic armies of the Hungarian Republic won every battle against the Imperial forces, until the new Emperor, the 16 years old Franz Joseph I called upon the Czar of Russia for aid. One hundred thousand Russian troops stormed into the Carpathian Basin, and the Liberty War was crushed. On October 6, thirteen Hungarian generals were executed in Arad. Thousands of others were imprisoned. An era of brutal terror and oppression descended upon the country, called the "Bach Age", referring to Baron Alexander Bach, Imperial Minister of Internal Affairs.
@@valevisa8429 1867.
Due to diplomatic pressure from without and the unique statesmanship of Ferenc Deak from within, emperor Franz Joseph I made peace with Hungary. Austria and Hungary became "equal partners" within the frame-work of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. Constitutional parliamentary system was re-established. Transylvania again became re-united with Hungay. All "special national privileges were abolished, and the equality of all citizens proclaimed, irrespective of race, creed or language." (C.A. Macartney: Hungary and Her Successors, page 262.( The Constitution of Dec.21. 1867 was the masterpiece of liberal ideologists. It contained the complete catalogue of the basic human rights, limited the power of the government, introduced the responsibility of the cabinet, and contained directives concerning the equality of all nationalities. (Haraszti: Ethnic History of Transylvania, page 114. (The well known Rumanian scholar, Onisifor Ghibu writes in his book "Viata si organizatea bisericeasca si scolari in Transylvania" (1915): "As an autonomous body, the Rumanian Greek Oriental Church in Hungary and Transylvania, by virtue of the rights ensured in 1868, administers, directs and manages independently its own ecclesiastical and educational affairs and trust funds in every respect . .. school-inspectors have no authority over our schools . . . parents are free to send their children to the school of their choice. In all Rumanian schools in Hungary and Transylvania the language of instruction is exclusively Rumanian.".1883
Fearing Russia, the Kingdom of Rumania enters into alliance with the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
When talking of Hungary include this : NATO's first
secretary general, Hastings "Pug"
Ismay, famously declared that the
organization's mission was "to keep the
Russians out, the Americans in, and the
Germans down."
NATO's mission has not changed in the
more than seventy years since 1952
when the organisation founded to
oppose the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union fell apart more than
thirty years ago, and Russia is not the
Soviet Union of old, and left Eastern
Europe voluntarily leaving NATO without
a mission, and yet the U.S. occupation
forces remained in Germany consistent
with the original NATO mission
statement mentioned above?
Russian President VIladimir Putin has
claimed that he once raised the possibility of Russia joining NATO with
then-President Bill Clinton, and that
Clinton said he had "no objection."
America remains as committed as ever
to keeping the Germans down and
preventing Europe from becoming a
peer competitor by sabotaging
Germany's burgeoning economic
co-operation and partnership with
Russia, which would have benefited all
of us, and this was most vividly
demonstrated by the destruction of
Nordstream by the U.S., effectively an
act of war on Germany.
The war in Ukraine was supposed to
accomplish two American foreign
policy objectives, the first being to bring
Russia to its knees economically and
the second being to weaken Germany
and Europe. Whilst the U.S. has failed abjectly in
achieving the first objective, the EU
appears to be trapped in a death spiral
with industry now unable to rely on
cheap energy from Russia relocating
out of Germany and the EU while
America profits from substituting it's
own more expensive gas and it's
insatiable Military Industrial Complex
earning bilions from supplying new
arms and ammunition to Ukraine and to
replenish depleted European stocks.
The inescapable irony of an insider appointed EU bureaucrat mocking a democratically elected leader as a dictator.
Tell me you don’t understand the EU without telling me:
U do know that the little angry Austrian mustache man was technically democratically elected, right? It took him 10 YEARS of first gaming the system from within before he destroyed it and became the dictator. The similarities between his rise and Orban's are waaaay to close for comfort.
He's taken over a lot of power as the video shows. Hungary has also become the most corrupt country in the EU.
@@TheAmericanAmerican too close
@@TheAmericanAmerican I'll bet you agree with Biden that Trump is also Adolph H. Get real!
Surprised to see the Hungarian minority being mentioned as a political factor. At most they contributed with 1-2 members in a parliament of 199 (so roughly 1%). The reason why they were granted citizenship is a complex issue: the main benefit of it is not political, but economical: many of them choose to move to Hungary from Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and the Ukraine and help soften the effects of population decline. Even with this added workforce, Hungary still had to invite workers from the Philippines to stay competitive.
Another few important things, that should be added:
1, Orban has built an oligarchy, the same way as russia and ukraine. They use governmental powers, to take over rival companies, and use them to pay his cronies. Also, they are coming for everything. And I mean, literally EVERYTHING, that can make money.
2, Work is often scarce in certain region, and your only option is to work for an Orban oligarch, or get social benefits from the local council. But, you only have these options, if they know, that you are politically loyal, or you can go hungry, for all they care.
3, More than third of the eligible population, doesn't vote. When he says "democratic support", and 2/3-ds super majority, he means, about 2 million or less people voted for him, from the 8 million eligible voters.
4, He has already set up an "academy system"(MCC, Mathias Corvinus Collegium), to try to brainwash more young people (high school and university aged) with money and privileges, and to supply new party members and puppets
5, He has basically payed the catholic church, to support him in everything. He has priests playing political advocates on cermons, telling people, how to vote for him, and pushing his propaganda.
6, He is purposely taken over all aspects of education, forcefully handing over government/local council schools to christian churches, continuously devolving government-run institutions, and forcing universities to adapt a new model, that includes a political commissar (sure, it's called a chancellor), to do his bidding.
and I could go on, but the point is, that he is turning the country into a dictatorship, with every step he makes.
With Islamic flavor I can say this is exactly how Erdoğan runs my country. No wonder they get along very well...
1 Proof?
2 Not true at all. If it is, proof?
3 Then why don't they participate in the voting. A majority is still a majority.
4 Accusation.
5 No bases of this claim.
6Thats not how it is. You just throwing around accusations
You say he is a dictator but where is the proof of that?
And just for contest I am not o Fidesz supporter.
What do you know about the opposing side? Talk about them!
It seems you have already been brainwashed by the woke media. Use your head and seek the facts, not what fake news tells you.
@@Horizontal77 They did the exact same things , but since they are the left it is good that they did it . They enriched the ppl around them , they made reforms in education to promote their ideology , they had control over the media in the same way , they created pointless jobs for poor ppl and payed them from taxes to make unemployment look good etc . Basically 1 is the devil the other is its twin . There is only 1 major difference , the left is loyal to the current western establishment and its supported by it while the right has some miniscule amount of loyalty to the locals and tries to avoid alliances and subjugation and look for good deals.
A guy called Babiš recently tried the same thing in my country. Luckily he is far less competent and charismatic. But the risk is still there that Czechia will soon follow just like Slovakia.
Fico is an excellent leader.
@@NigelFerris-p2h You can have that opinion, but no one should be a leader for life and undermine democracy like Orban.
@@jonasfiala2976 Orban was democratically elected and represents the interest of Hungarians and not 3rd party interest. Is this an issue?
@@NigelFerris-p2h Fico is about to save his criminal friends from prison. Not exactly "excellent".
@@gabor6259I like him.
While I don't agree with Orban, you can't blame his supporters for agreeing to keep migration out. Hungary was very open throughout history to accept people coming in hence the reason why so many different culture lived in Great Hungary. Then came the big cut down which was heavily culture based. They literally took those parts out which had people of different culture. Imagine cutting out London for having so many culture there and creating The Country of London... At this point the French Trianon decision made Hungary so anti migration.
Actually Hungary was a multi-ethnic state.from it's inception. They didn't "let" people come in anywhere... they were already there.
@@adrianvintila5077 Obviously there was. But also there was multiple times when Hungarian kings invitet people to repopulate parts of the courtry after invading force literally wiped it out. Ottoman invasion, Mongol Invasion for example. Now they have problem with a few thousands migrants? Guess why...
A few hundred people could decide in Trianon if a village stays in Hungary or goes to another country...
@@adrianvintila5077 Oh no!? The Germans, Slavs, Kumens, Iasigs, Pechenyegs, Jew fleeing pogroms in Tsarist Russia, Serbs fleeing the Ottomans, etc. ALL let in. You fail history.
But they didn't just cut out pple of different cultures, 1/3 of the ethnic Hungarian population found itself in a different country.
When talking of Hungary include the massacres done against Hungarians by Romanians
You should also do a video about the ANC in South Africa
I’m Hungarian. I dream of a real and robust democratic landscape capable of rejecting populism.
However I’m afraid it’s an uphill battle over here…
The demographic contingent that could massively shift the political climate are the younger generations. The exact demographic that is shrinking, disinterested or have already left the country for a better life elsewhere…
Therefore expecting this to change any time soon seem
Illogical.
To conclude most of us in Hungary desire a real democracy with separation of powers, free media, proper checks and balances. It’s just that more than half of the country has been lead to believe that it is already the case, through various vehicles of deception, distortion, concentration of media outlets etc.
Populism is democracy.
Populism and democracy are related concepts but not synonymous. Populism often involves a focus on the concerns of ordinary people against an elite or establishment. While democracy seeks to represent the will of the people through elections, populism can sometimes undermine democratic principles by oversimplifying complex issues or by concentrating power in charismatic leaders. Populist movements can exist within democratic systems, but they can also pose challenges to democratic norms and institutions. @@jerrymiller9039
Maybe Orbans opposition should adopt a bunch of his positions and target his weaknesses to siphon votes and get elected. 🤔
The 80 years of relative peace the world enjoyed after WW2 is ending. Thanks to destabilizing things like climate change, demographic changes, and just general entropy, people will be seeking out populism for the security it says it offers. The security of being told what to think and do.
@@jerrymiller9039 The big problem, however, is that when you own all the media and control public opinions (like Orban, Hitler, Stalin etc. do) then you aren't truly popular - you're just depriving your population of information to think that you're popular.
Lots of good points have been raised by other commentators that give more context.
The part I would like to expand is the mention of Lajos Simicska, 'the businessman who got ruined by Orban when he turned against him'
Please do NOT feel sorry for Mr Simicska, he is just as guilty as Orban in making Fidesz what it is today. He used to be the treasurer for the party and owned a media empire that pushed its propaganda, making him the richest man in Hungary for almost a decade. After their falling out with Orban, he tried fighting back by embracing the far-right Jobbik, but in the end he just decided its not worth it and gave up most of his business interests in order to get away unscathed.
On the topic of gay marriage and adoption: Orban did not ban anything, those were never even legal options in Hungary, and in most East European countries they still are not legal. Its a slow progress to make them legal, but it fits in the general trend.
1:42 oh I've spoken to one or two of his fans... let's just be nice and call them frustrating.
And what's so frustrating to understand about them?
refusing migrants, and outlawing chopping of genitalia or certain to adopt, and abolishing income tax on large families? sounds incredibly based to me.
???
Are you making shit up now?.
@@Siranoxz Ez meg mit jelent?
biased
I would argue that Poland isn't part of this group as Poland recently voted in Centrist Donald Tusk.
When talking of Hungary include the mongol empire in 1241
Rabbis says now is jewish renesance in Hungary. Yair Netanyahu said, critisise Soros is not antisemitsm.
It's not racism to criticise Soros.. He is just an evil rich person...does not matter his heritage...
As a Hungarian citizen, yes, Orban may be a mafia dictator, but, he cares about Hungary.
Nationalism isn’t a bad word.
Keep Hungary Hungary.
You are insane if you actually believe that
@@Alepfi5599 What do you believe Orban cares more about? Hungary or Globalism?
@@Alepfi5599 Why do you say that? It's true.
Ha valóban érdekelné őt Magyarország, akkor nem lopna és nem szavazná meg azokat az EU-s törvényeket, amik “bántanak” minket
@@GaryVR The EU is the problem.
The EU creates the problem, for Hungary.
EU wants Hungary to have mass migration… or else!
EU wants Hungary to teach young children about sexuality… or else!
EU wants Hungary to fund war… or else!
Hungary is good!
EU is corrupt thieves.
If Hungary was booted from the EU I imagine his support would crumble with the economy. Once the Ukraine war finishes, it'll be time for the EU to have less-than-quiet words with Orban.
No the EU will continue to grandstand while ultimately doing nothing because they are unable to replace Russia as a key import/export market and demanding a sovereign nation essentially destroy itself is completely unreasonable.
Which is why the USA destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline
Hungary main export partners:
Germany 27.7%
Romania 5.4%
Italy 5.1%
Austria 5%
Slovakia 4.8%
France 4.4%
Czech Republic 4.4%
Poland 4.3%
main import partners:
Germany 26.2%
Austria 6.3%
China 5.9%
Poland 5.5%
Slovakia 5.3%
Netherlands 5%
Czech Republic 4.8%
Italy 4.7%
France 4%
@@Oendikla so Russia is less than 5% of Hungarys imports and exports? Where does Hungary import its energy from?
breaking ties with russia would mean more wind energy and solar panels. but breaking ties with the EU would mean the end of the whole Hungarian industry. it only exists because of the customs union. leaving the EU would have catastrophic consequences to Hungary but I guess the Orban government would have always someone else to blame@@IRGodful
@@Oendikla how suitable is the Hungarian environment to wonder and solar generation? Germany's green energy grid is garbage except for the Baltic wind farms, which Hungary doesn't border
My mom (an American) used to teach at CEU, she really liked it and is still pissed about Orban kicking it out, despite her not having been anywhere in Europe in 20 years
CEU voluntarily left for Austria. Anyway, it is constantly present in Hungary. Only transferred his headquarters.
It was funded by Soros. Enough said!
@@Horizontal77Man, what planet are you living on? It was forced out. A huge scandal, bc Orban promised to keep it. He's a liar.
The CEU was training cultural marxist activists. Why would Hungary allow a subversive institution to continue?
I criticized your last video because it was too hypothetical, but this one was really good so i must praise it. This is what i expected from this channel from the beggining, glad I stuck around. Good job and keep it going. 🙂
It's trash. @holofernesz just roasted him with a breakdown of the actual facts.
@1:50 - Poland changed their government late last year.
And we're going to see more governments like this going forward. Simply put, people will only tolerate being forced to suffer for the sake of outsiders for so long before they side with the first person that tells them what they want to hear.
Hungary fought with the axis but didn't suffer enough like Germany to learn where xenophobic autocratics lead a country.
the main issue with these kinds of people are that they are massivly corrupt. this doesn't mean that left leaning goverments or people aren't but as of right now far right wing goverments have a reputation to be far more corrupt. Orban is a very good example of this.
Yep... I don't think any of these politicians are the answers to our problems, but the thanks to the chaos it's just too easy for the man with all the answers to get traction.
We know what happens when that goes too far, and politics founded on grievances always go way too far. Even if the grievances are founded through a genuine injustice and suffering, the end results are always a zero sum game. This was never going to end well
@@badluck5647You think xenophobia has anything to do with WW2 ? HHAHAHAHAH
@@mesa9724 What kind of fascist textbook are you reading where they whitewashed the German ethnically cleansed each nation they invaded?
Do Hungarians not cover it, because they were deeply involved in German war crimes?
Hold on, did you map show that danish isn’t Germanic?? What are you talking about?? 2:27
For a channel attempting to recreate the credibility of EM, that language map was...
So many countries should have been colored in but weren't, and how can you pronounce the word "Romance" as "Romansh"?
Amazing quality, love the new channel
It's trash
When he speaks English, he sounds like Gru from Despicable Me.
Damn
He ain't tho. Yall really need to rethink your idea of a dictator
So a leader that controls the media and courts isn't a dictator? OK then.
@@Obscurai Except he doesn't. just because this guy says he does, doesn't make it true. Read some other comments... some people break down the flaws in this video really well.
@@joenemeth4826 Flaws in the video are not the issue. He is still concentrating power in the presidency and that is the issue. He's not a dictator in the full definition but his actions shows his tendencies for power concentration. Flaws in the video are just typical "whataboutism" and a distraction from the issue of proper governance.
Coming from Singapore, I can see many similarities between his policies and ours. We also ban any foreign funded NGO, especially ones affiliated with George Soros. He seems a bit more unnecessarily antagonistic though, should get along better with his EU peers.
Well, there is a reason why Hungary has low fertility and new existing countries like Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania have much better living standards than Hungary
Low birthrates is a problem for most of the west, especially when considering the ethnically white.
Not sure how it's Orban's fault?
The Baltic nations have always been very wealthy, due to their ability to trade through the Baltic Sea. (You might notice Hungary is landlocked)
Also Hungary has one of the best fertility rates in Europe, so I don't know what you're trying to say with that
@@IRGodful It doesn't have a good fertility rate.
The entire developed world suffers from low birthrates. It has nothing to do with economics. See the high birthrate in poor third-world countries.
You need to do deeper study related to politics in Poland, Italy, India
Great video as always!
I'm a Hungarian, and there are a lot of people just like me, who'd never vote for him. Take into account the gerrymandering pls. I don't feel represented by anyone in this government
2:24 damn this map is all messed up, from start to finish… (btw the info about the polish government is outdated and has been for a few months now. Do better)
Please optimise the content for those that just listen to the audio.
Orbán is a brilliant politician. Hungary is the only country in Europe where there are no political prisoners, full press and freedom of opinion, no anti-Semitic riots, etc. This is precisely why the West is attacking Orbán. They cannot bear that the leader of a small country like Hungary can lead the country more wisely than the much bigger powers.
"full press and freedom of opinion". You have no idea how wrong you are.
@@REBACK7 You are mistaken. Hungary has more opposition leftist media than pro-government/truthful media.
@@REBACK7 I would say that while there is deffinately propoganda..... take a look around at western media around the world. It is all bought and paid for by their respective governments. Countries like Canada are constantly attacking independent media and are using communist tactics to manipulate the truth or delay investigations on itself. It is slowly failing but all major media in that country has been bought. You've been had. So relatively speaking...since there are acutal radio stations, newspapers and tv stations which are free to operate which support an open and opposing view... it si realative "full freedom of the press".
The only thing you’re seeing is the tip of an iceberg several miles deep
A real full democresy have noting to do with religion. That is one of the many reasons that Hungary is ranked as a flawed democrecy.
Another very interesting video!
Something you didnt mention is how the MCC is funding and supporting right wing populists in the West like Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Peter Boghossian etc
And the same happens to the Left. What's your point?
What's the MCC?
He put his name on the ballot and ran and won. Totally different from how the EU leaders take power
If you don’t understand the EU, best not to have opinions about it
Before the 2010 election he promised to hold the previous prime minister accountable. Where is the previous prime minister now? In the government. Earning as much money in a month as you earn in a year (or more).
@@gabor6259 and? The EU claims to support democracy but for example Ursela was not even named as a candidate until after the voting was done. Then they threw out all the named candidates and selected her in a closed door meeting. That is not what democracy looks like
@@plasmacannon1198 If you are not aware of how the EU currently works, please don't comment about it.
@@joenemeth4826 there is absolutely zero chance that you know more about the EU than me. Not being arrogant, but I have a job and so do you, and I doubt they’re in the same field
I hardly comment on a UA-cam video but I feel this has to be told. Please tune down the BGM or increase the vocal volume. It's really difficult to follow the narration at times. This is the case with all the context matters videos. This isn't much of a problem with EE videos.
Don't worry, the video is mostly crap. You didn't miss much
As a Hungarian, this is so depressing. I never voted for Orbán...
This death spiral of makingg enemies of everyone is obviously not sustainable in the long run, but veryy profitable for those who get to rob these "undesirables". I'm not shure who started this trend of campaigning with "defeating the enemy" but they deserve huge the royalties for it from around the world.
Democracy has to win in 2024!!!
Thanks for the upload guys. Was wondering why this channel wasn't so active. Can't wait to watch this later
Because it's biased, and badly so, and he's getting called out on it and his twisting of facts. That's why
This video's got some big volume spikes
I wish my country had an Orban instead of a host of traitors.
Trust me, he seems like a patriotic hero on the surface, but the only thing he brings is suffering
Moving to Hungary
I mean, it depends on your living standards. If you from Asia go for it, not there literally Romania which is much better country for living standards if you want to live in east part of Europe
I mean if you're old and don't need work opportunities ie. A retiree, go for it.
I've just moved back from "perfect" Canada to "horrible" Hungary.
Much more work opportunities in Hungary than in Canada, and you can afford more on your salary than just paying your rent and food....
Smal correction. In Indo european languages in slavic also belongs Czech and Slovak
It's true even though Czech had 200 years Germany and Slovakia 400 year Hungary
He's burning the Troyan horse?🤔
Or closing the Pandora's box....too soon.
Wow.Mr. Orban is something else a talented diplomat and politician!
Bravo.
Bojler eladó! (But great vid, can confirm)
So many Slavic countries are simply being missed out on the map at 2:20, also Romanian is romance Lagrange. Denmark, Iceland,Uk, Netherlands, partly Belgium Luxembourg and Switzerland is also Germanic, this map is out of wack. Worst I have seen in any channel.
Bulgarian and Macedonian are also slavic.
He is a leader and EU don't every thing what to do with him he fight for his country and for peace God bless him
Wine in Greek is not "κρασί" (krasi) as you write in the map but "οίνος" (pronounced "inos"), it passed into Latin and then all the Latin-based languages got their derivatives.
If that's the case, then even Duolingo got it wrong. But then what does krasi mean?
@@gabor6259 In ancient Greece they always drank wine mixed up with water ( 1:3 up to 1:10 wine to water). "Krasi" means mixture.
Fun-fact 1: it was frown upon to drink unmixed wine, you were considered to be a degenerate or a drunk.
Fun-fact 2: in modern Greek we use both words to mean the same thing - unmixed wine. 'Krasi' is the common word that is used in the day-to-day life hence if you Google translate wine this is what you'll get.
"Inos" on the other hand, is old fashion and used mostly in derivative words and on bottle labels to sound more authentic.
Is Hungary based?
based or biased? If based, based on what?
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 Read Urban Dictionary, my guy.
The victor Oban is the greatest leader who knows gravity of international politics and it is not only Hungrin people loved him I think more than Hungrin entire world like him there is no doubt he the best leader in the Europen Union.
Where do I begin to take this apart...
1) 1:14 - "Been in power longer than any other European leader" .... I don't know what to say to this. Maybe Europeans leaders at all should suck less? We're talking 13 years which is not exactly record breaking... and people were complaining already at 9 years as being extreme. There have been longer serving British, Australian and Canadian Prime Ministers not to mention Angela Merkel was in office for 16 years. This is hardly a point to make and also frankly inaccurate considering the last fact I stated, nice use of biased information though.
2) 1:23 - You used a clip from Peter Marki-Zay, who is currently under investigation and has also admiited of foreign funds financing a large majority of his campaign, which he is now denying of course. He was caught red handed getting financed by NGO's, a big no no in the majority of democratic countries in this world,
3) 3:20 - You are reffering to the migrant crisis (you say refugee which is inaccurate) of the mid-2010's as if it were the past tense. The migrant crisis continues today and started in 2015...if you use this in context than say it. Remember...Context Matters right?
4) 3:40 - You wash over the Treaty of Trianon as if it was perfectly ok what the west decided to do to Hungary after the war. First off, that image that was tweeted was not created by the Orban government but is an old graphic created shortly after the treaty was forcefully signed. Secondly, the graphic is accurate and justified as the west split the country apart not even taking cultural populations or lines into account and trapped roughly 50% of then's purely Hungarian population outside of its borders, after which point some were forcefully relocated from their homes, killed or sent to camps (post WWII to Siberia), or simply found themselves trapped across borders they could never cross again in thier lifetime leaving half of their families permanently split apart and broken. All in lands that belonged to Hungary for over 1000 years. Good Job west upholding human rights while you ran slave camps and colonies in Africa. Thirdly, the west gave Austria, the people and empire that originally started WWI parts of Hungary. What?? Fourthly, the treaty ended a few years ago, so technically all of those borders should have been returned the day it expired. If we truley live in a world that follows demokratic "rule of law" this would've happened and been all over the news or a greater negotiation should have happened....but the hypocrasy is strong with the west so of course they are ok with not enforcing the "rule of law" on themselves. For all of these reason are you surprised that this is still a big deal and we built a big wall commemorating how the west detroyed our country? Yeah.... think about it. And just to be clear, Croatia was never considered part of the true Kingdom of Hungary (youl called it "geater Hungary".... you can't even get that right as there was no such thing ever.) it was always considered a partnered state with autonomy. But of course you can use whatever language you like in your videos to diminish historical fact. Again you miss context.
5) 4:12-4:50 There's nothing wrong with this...every country should be doing these things if they are to survive. What exactly is wrong with this? You mention "critics" say that it is racist and then they twist things an talk about anti "race mixing". Orban has never said that, the media has made conclusions here that don't exist. He said love your country and love your history and love your roots. There is nothing wrong with that. A country without an identy will forget where it has been, how it got there, and will have an aimless future. National Identity is important to every country as long as it doesn't get to the point of "superior race" pushing. If you fail to understand this and it's roll through millenia, I can't help you.
6) 5:12 - You pull up video images that have no relation to Fidesz or Orbán and have been denounced by the party. These are more closely related to the now defunkt and confused Jobbik party. Stop using non-factual images to manipulate your narrative. You are using the wrong context here.
7) "Political Skill".... you talk about this like it's a bad thing. In politics you need political skill...so he has it.... and? If you are saying that the rest of the political leaders don't have this kind of skill, you are accurate but this would be true for any leader that has won any race. It's not really unique to Hungary.
8) "Went to a populist strategy". I keep hearing this word across all political landscapes as if it were a bad thing. Let me drop the formal definition here: "In politics, the word populist refers to someone who puts ordinary people's rights above those of the wealthy and powerful. It is basically a synonym of democrat, which when spelled with a lower-case d is simply a person who believes in democratic principles of rule by the people, freedom, and equality." If someone doesn't belive in this, what exatcly do they believe in? A non-democratic society???
9) 7:31 - 7:40 - You washed over this guy as if he didn't matter. This guy is the greatest reason why Orbán is in power and continues to be in power. This guy, the current leader of the opposition, almost bankrupted the country (worse than greece) and when people discovered this and protested, sent un-marked police contractors against his own people, shooting at them and beating them, and refused to stand down as millions of people shouted for him to leave and resign. This guy should be in jail. Maybe someone should instead look at the advantage that this guy gives Orbán. As long as this guy and his wife is in politics, the opposition has no chance. They contradict themselves on a daily basis, steal money in every office they get in to (example, the current Budapest major is part of the opposition side of things and has managed to nearly bankrupt the city despite his Fidesz friendly competitor leaving the city with a massive surplus, hiring and paying his friends massive salaries etc.). Lately, even the purely independent ATV, which is the only place where opposition members speak, asked him a simple question as to why he didn't resign when his scandal broke out (in response to the president recently resigning for a relatively small scandal), to which he exploded and raised his voice and shook his finger as in how dare she suggest something like this. His wife is the granddaughter of the leader that made officer shoot into the crowd at the start of the revolution in 1956. They live in a house confiscated from Jews by the communists in the 1950's and handed to his wife's family. And this list goes on and on and on. If this guy were to dissapear and his influence were to dissapear, a real opposition party might materialize for once. You spent less than 10 seconds on this topic...one of the most important points which could explain everything.
A little long but WOW, well said
Romanian is romance language 2:22
How Do you say "yes" in romanian?
@@zoltan6451 how do you say Mongolia in finno-ugric?
@@thieph how do you say Dacia in Bs?
@@zoltan6451 lol, even in Panoinia was a latin language spoken before slavs. So even Hungary is Romania
@@thieph of course there was!!!! They were called byzantines, and were cleaned our along Franks germanics and then raided 20 more countries in 9th century and guess what? Vlachs werent anywhere untill the 10th century placed in the area by the byzantines 😂😂😂😂😂
This video is another example of the arrogant western/liberal exceptionalism that creates more so called “dictators” that you claim to so detest.
I want you to hear this from someone who actually lives there. HE. IS. A. DICTATOR.
I don’t know who lied to you about the US having a lot of wide reaching independent media? There two voices only - republicans and democrats, the differ in some social policies but everything else is the same narrative, specifically foreign policy
What they ment is that you can read the BBC, Aljazeera, RT, or any other media fron another country as its always translated to english
@@joelimbergamo639 As is any media..... google translate does a fantastic job.
@@joenemeth4826 sure, but how many ties do you read an article that is not in your language?
@@joelimbergamo639 Many. I try not to get my news from one place.
Including India in this list
You got to be kidding me
India was ruled by INC party for past 70 years and BJP is merely scored two 5 year terms😂
Man you don't know anything
The doom and gloom music is not it. Just let facts speak.
I am unable to comment on the reality of Orban move on media control in Hungary I am confused about how you can compare him to PM Modi. As per most international rankings press freedom has only been increasing in India since he came to power, and so has liberalization on independent media. I can you please clarify what you meant
Putin - Orban - Modi - Erdoğan - Trump
Democratic backsliding is on the rise.
Don't worry about it. This video is mostly propoganda against people who don't support every ideology that the West wants, which includes PM Modi since he uses Russian Oil and doesn't take part in sanctions. There's about 5% truth then filled with twisting of facts and finally flat out lies. It's like he googled "Hungary dictator" and went with every headling he could find without actual context. One of the greatest disinformation pieces around.
Sorry, I don't believe you. Modi is one of the new awful authoritarians.
4:45 dude sounds like Gru
Contiuned from previous comment:....
10) 8:00 - You speak about citizens outside of the country having voting rights. You miss the fact that they can't actually vote for a representative, only a party, and that their votes only count for 1/4 of a single vote. In the last few elections, it was shown that many ballots that were mailed did not even make it back to the ballot box in time to make a difference (weeks late) and only a few thousand actually went to embassies to participate. This is just a feel good campaign for foreigners and doesn't really have an effect on any election outcomes. MAYBE if the election were to be determined by double digit, or even triple digit numbers (won by 20 or even 190 votes) this could be taken as the tilting factor...but alas...this is not the case. You spent more time talking about this than you talked about the previous point, disqualifying you from knowing anything about how the electoral system actually works. Caught talking out of context again
11) 8:38 - Proof that these were party loyalist? or is this speculation? Of course this was speculation, there are many instances where the current Judiciary went against the governmnet. The whole point of the reorganization in 2012 was to retire people left over from the old communist system, re-organize the system to elminiate communist era rules and update the rules surrounding its independence. There were many people in the judiciary at this time who still sympathized with ex communist leaders who, at that time, were still abundent within the political spectrum, and some who are still in politics today. Corruption in the judiciary was very high and this is well documented.
12) 9:34 - You talk about the press here. I challenge you to find any current democracy that doesn't do the practice that you say Orbán does. I admit, he is very blatent with this practice yet there are still independent TV stations and newspapers whtat circulate freely and abundently whereas in countries like Canada and Australia have all but shunned away independent media because of government criticisms. In these countries the governments have even gone so far as to directly fund the media, virtually silencing opposition. They only start to change their tune against the government when they can no longer hide the truth from the people. While I don't agree with this practice and I believe that all media should stand on its own feet, you argument here is moot because it's worse in other "free and democratic" countries.
13) 10:47 - You talk about favouring friends.... can you show me a western style democracy that doesn't do this? Corruption is rampant everywhere? What makes Hungary different? Nothing. Countries are in bed with local Mafia's, they are in bed to lobiest, leaders become millionaires when their salaries are only in the thousands (math doesn't add up). Again... I don't agree with this but you're talking about things that make Orbán unique like it's a special formula... this is not a special formula when everyone is in the same boat.
14) 11:45 - Again you talk about refugees.... the country has never been closed to REAL refugees.... they can get in line to be processed like the millions before them have been processed in Europe. The problem is that most of the people coming are illegal migrants, mostly young men without families or wives, with fake ID's, weapons and an unknown background. This is undisputed fact. And now Europe doesn't know what it has let in and several have been now identified as known members of terrorist organizations who have been walking around free for years. In its efforts to "feel good about itself", Europe has ruined its own security.
15) "Finding enemies" - This is the new way of most democratic societies. As an example there were far worse people than Trump, but the democrats have nothing to stand on so they've been dragging him through the mud for 4 years now in the hops of discrediting him. They seem to be failing.
16) Soros was financing migration, proven fact and admitted by him, and the EU is basically financing people smugglers and human trafficers. By these simple actions, Orbán is right to stand up to Brussels who loves to interfere in the politics of soverign states to fill their agenda or their pockets. How dare the EU give false hope and destroy lives.
17) CEU... you could say forced...but it also left voluntarily even after the university came to an agreement.
18) LGBTQ stuff.... Sweden has several lawsuits from people who have received gender change therapy before they were 18 saying that those operations ruined their lives because they changed their minds. Science is pretty clear on how the developing brain works and how old you have to be before it reaches stability. Banning these treatments under 18 should be adopted by all countries.... the science actually supports it...not to mention the deaths that have occured due to complications and the lawsuits that are currently in courts. The rest of the law was a law put in place not to confuse said children which science has proven can be easily confused at certain ages. What you do after you are 18 is still your business and nobody cares. As for the marriage thing.... well... it's a self identified Christian state.... so yeah... they have the right to enforce laws that protect their identity (refer back to national identity to understand this)...but if you don't understand this I can't help you. Go to a Muslim state and tell them they have to do this and let me know how this goes for you.
So how did Orbán win power.... well simply, he is "someone who puts ordinary people's rights above those of the wealthy and powerful. It is basically a synonym of democrat, which when spelled with a lower-case d is simply a person who believes in democratic principles of rule by the people, freedom, and equality." Reference point 8
You spewing your own uneducated opinion actually undermines democracy because people think that if you present things a certain way that it has to be true and therefore you are skewing fact so that you can make your own opinion seem like the truth. I don't agree with some of the things the Hungarian government does, but I agree with the western governments less.
Many of the same tools can be seen being used in other countries, with different political leadership ideologies, such as Canada under Trudeau.
The single biggest factor in a government like Orban's or Trudeau’s being possible, though, is that the government is large and omnipresent. This allows the elected leadership, regardless of ideology, many tools that aid in establishing what is effectively an elected dictatorship.
This is also a growing problem where unelected powers within a society become too limited in idealogy. This includes things like media, judiciaries, education, etc.
A healthy democracy is not a monoculture. It flourishes when there is real debate, covered by a fully honest, independent, and transparent media, and the foundations of the system are a key part of the education of the nation's citizens.
Trudeau is quite far from an orban style soft autocracy.
What the hell are you talking about? How can you seriously compare Trudeau to Orbán? Where do you get this stuff?
@@skmo7105 government funded media, seized bank accounts, CBC actively going to court to obstruct legal fair use of their material in a manner which they've never done to any other political party...
And how about promising a new voting system, until they found out they couldn't get the one that would have made the Liberals the default government going forward (single transferable ballot, which Trudeau knew would have seen the Liberals be the second choice at worst on virtually every ballot). They tried to gerrymander the system, and only failed because the commission they appointed refused to give them the political cover they needed. That ended any changes.
Look too at the attacks on various parts of the Canadian populace as being "un-Canadian" for holding different views. The willingness to use the Emergencies Act to break up a peaceful protest in Ottawa (one that caused far less problems, and lasted a shorter time, for that city than many farmers protests in places like Europe and India, where protesters weren't hit with ridiculously draconian measures (and then Trudeau has the nerve to lecture India's Modi on respect for people's rights 🤔🙄🤦🏼♂️).
Trudeau has no more respect for political movements contrary to his own than Orban does. The only difference is Canada has a better Constitution (when the Supreme Court actually stands behind it, at least - they've been too willing to play the part of Liberal stooges, even as they seemed far less reticent to stand up to previous governments of all parties), or at least one that is more difficult to amend (unless you're the Quebec government).
Orban and Trudeau are remarkably similar in intent. Fortunately, Canada isn't Hungary in many ways.
@@Jay-ho9io You're right... Trudeau is Communist Left
nice video
Ahh yes george soros, the good guy
He is.
Soros is evil as can be, so is anyone who supports globalism.
He is doing a "Make Hungary Great Again" tactic.
ria,ria..Siberia😈
Narendra modi is no where near like viktor orban
Zlodej obrátil právo a má peniaze tak chce celý svet
You neglected to put Romania in Romance or put it in any category of languages.
Romanians aren't known for being Romantic. ❤😂
Good video but your analysis is missing some points. For example look at the economic policy and the difference between rich and poor people in Hungary. Also you could explain why Orban is aligning himself with Russia and so on
Hi missed everything and made it all up. That's what he missed.
Great vid. Very true and sad…..
He is liberally gru
Orban didn't 'take over Hungary. He was duly elected by a majority several times. He represents his people more than the unelected bureaucrats in the EU represent theirs.
If you don’t know anything about EU politics, please just don’t comment!
@@GaryVRI think his comment is correct about the EU.
Decedant "fiert" de Croix Noir et KGB!
How about for once the US just keeps out of the internal matters of other countries and just minds its own fucking business for once , lets just watch what happens in Hungary , there is no need for the five eyes to act here . Let things take there natural courses .
People will only suffer so long before they realise that they are being drained for the good of outsiders when they do realise that the whole outside starts calling them oppressive and non democratic just to save their hold
Orban - Trump - Putin
Make Autocrats Great Again
Trump is autocratic? Rent free.
@@mesa9724
"There is a great man, a great leader in Europe - Viktor Orban. He is the Prime Minister of Hungary. He is a very great leader, a very strong man. Some people don't like him because he's too strong.”
- Donald Trump
@@badluck5647 Your point being?
@@mesa9724
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius,’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine - of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”
- Donald Trump
@@mesa9724 Trump idolizes Putin, Orban, Xi, and Erdoğan. Why do you think that is?
V EURÓPE je to JEDNIČKA.
MAĎARSKO buď hrdé❤👍👏
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Support Orbán from 🇺🇸
What is the value to Europe to have Hungary held in stasis behind the Iron Curtain by orban putin? The EU needs to ability to self police and self regulate. clearly the assumption in EU rules was that countries in the EU - would not take direction from countries - outside of the EU. That seems like a solvable problem. I can only assume that the fine print in EU membership - has an answer. Time to use it. Slovakia too. Raise the cost to Orban for extra EU aligence. Raise the cost to putin for targeting EU member countries. My God how complicated can it be ?
" countries in the EU - would not take direction from countries - outside of the EU" What exactly are you infering here? A sovergn country, wheather they are in the EU or not, is not compelled to take direction from any other country at any time. They can, and do, give the middle finger back whenever they want. If a country had to follow everything the EU said, it would be no different than a requreiment to take orders from a central directorate, which is what the Soviet Union was..... we don't want that again.
The EU politicians are NOT our overlords! Hungary is a sovereign country, that voluntarily joined the EU, as one of it's equal members! EU membership was not given us as a gift by the West, it doesn't just benefit us, it benefits them, too! But the EU is NOT there to order us what to do, or how to live! And as for the war in the Ukraine and Putin: the enemy of Hungary isn't Russia, but the Ukraine! Why? Because the Ukraine occupies Hungarian territory Subcarpathia, and the Ukrainians oppress the Hungarian minority there! How the fuck does the EU expect us to support the fight for the territorial integrity of the Ukraine under these circumstances? Don't they know the history of this region? Doesn't the West know about the territorial and political consequences of the Trianon Treaty of 1920, that was enforced on Hungary by the West itself? Doesn't the West know about the territorial and political consequences of the 1947 Paris peace treaty ending WW2? Why are they pretending as if we were Putin's allies? Why are they pretending as if Orban was doing Putin's bidding, and not acting in the interests of the Hungarian nation and state? Makes zero sense!
I was watching very intently until I heard Orban speaking English. He sounds exactly like Gru from the Despicable Me movies. That got a good chuckle out of me.
More propaganda from the EU. Top bloke fella, well done.
If you don’t know anything about EU politics, please don’t comment
Hint: People support dictators.