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“Ideological attacks against the LGBT community and the gender question in general are not specific to Hungary or Russia. This is a global movement — a political, radical, conservative movement,” says Zsuzsanna Szelényi, program director of the CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy and author of Tainted Democracy: [Hungary PM] Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary.
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In 2011-2012, after Vladimir Putin announced that he would be running for a third presidential term, Moscow saw its largest protest wave since before the collapse of the Soviet Union. In response to the Bolotnaya movement, the Russian authorities decided to curb the opposition’s traction at any cost, launching a brutal crackdown on political events while arresting — and even assassinating — key opponents. The symbolic prosecution of participants in the Bolotnaya protests demonstrated to would-be demonstrators that no one who took to the streets in opposition to Putin was immune to prosecution — not even those who did so peacefully. Could Orbán, who closely studies and borrows from the experience of his “big brother,” follow the same path? Experts interviewed by The Insider believe this is unlikely to happen.
And the first consequences of the Pride march seem to confirm this. On July 3, the first administrative case was opened against a Pride participant — a young activist named Lili Pankotai. However, by July 9, the case was dropped, and the police officially announced they would not prosecute Pride participants.
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Hopefully Orban gets the sudden stop at the end of a long drop that he deserves.
Does he? He’s a terrible leader, stripping his fellow citizens of rights, manipulating them through a media monopoly, enriching himself while impovering them. But, unless I didn’t get the news, he does not reign by terror, did not set up concentration camps, did not use killings as means of politics. If you want justice as in quid pro quo, he should be stripped of his rights (aka imprisoned) and impoverished (aka property confiscated).
And even if he pulled a Stalin – we don’t do death sentences in Europe. And even if you’re a fan of the death sentence – letting someone rot in jail while watching his country thrive is a far harsher punishment than a couple of minutes of death agony.
Of course I have to warn, because I’m hungarian, that I might be biased but I do believe he indirectly caused the deaths of thousands or even tens of thousands. They embezzled billions in funds meant for hospitals, daycares, incubators, agriculture, etc which lead to a great amount of misfortune. Every day people die from preventable diseases because either the medical institutions are under-equiped and understaffed or because of the huge quality of life gap that has developed between the rest of the eu and hungary due to inflation and stagnating, sometimes decreasing, pay. After all this the most incriminating action was that during the covid pandemic they embezzled money directly meant for buying intubators and more hospital beds which lead to more people having to be triaged, get left for dead, because of the actions of Orbán and his gang. This isn’t even one percent of the grief that they have caused over these 15 years. I am against the death sentence in almsot any case but this time its because i want to see him rot in a fucking prison cell for the rest of his life.
Let’s hope it’s cardiac arrest
Idk I think the implied jury induced sudden stop after a fall would probably be the best thing for Hungary. Those who would be dictators should fear a fair and just metting of punishment