This is what authoritarianism and nationalism gets you... Hungary downgraded to "partly free"

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2. Orban is 75 years too late. He really missed his calling

Though nominally an ally of Germany since outbreak of World War II, Hungary didn't really participate in earnest in the rounding up and extermination of Jews until 1944, when the tide had definitely turned against the Axis already.

Orban is new model of the Hungarian regime of 1944, and is unashamedly proud of it. The EU is understandably unhappy having him as head of one of their member states, and even less happy about the strong support he has among his people.

We should be concerned as well. Why? Orban controls virtually ALL the media in Hungary, and Hungarian is SO completely different from all other European languages that media from outside must be translated, or it will only reach people well-enough educated to be fluent in other languages.

We have plenty of other media than Fox, Sinclair and National Hate Radio, of course, but there are large portions of our country that only listen to those three, and actually believe what they hear..