{"id":1087865,"date":"2025-02-03T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1087865"},"modified":"2025-02-01T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T17:18:16","slug":"head-of-hungarian-community-accuses-orban-interview-with-tibor-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/head-of-hungarian-community-accuses-orban-interview-with-tibor-tampa\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Hungarian Community accuses Orban. Interview with Tibor Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tibor Tampa<\/strong> at UATV English and what does Ukrainian Hungarian society think of Viktor Orban? Why does Orban always steps back with his veto threats? Fico induced Slovakia\u2019s energy crisis to benefit the Kremlin\u00a0–\u00a0is\u00a0that\u00a0true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 How big is the Hungarian community in Ukraine after all?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Unfortunately, today, only not more than 100 persons, according to the last survey. But we had more than 100 persons before the wider Russian aggression in Kyiv and Kharkiv regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 All right. Well, anyway, we know that there are not many Hungarians in Ukrainian society now, but there are people, and they certainly have their opinions. So, what does the Ukrainian Hungarian community think of Viktor Orb\u00e1n?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Unfortunately, Viktor Orb\u00e1n has made Hungarians ashamed, and he is a scoundrel. Unfortunately, he has done a lot of bad things thanks to his attitudes and actions. Orb\u00e1n doesn’t understand, he doesn’t know what it means to be Hungarian in Ukraine. Unfortunately, he is a Russian ally economically and ideologically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Orb\u00e1n now finances Russian aggression by buying natural resources from Russia. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is maybe the only European country supporting, economically financing Russian aggression in the whole of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Yeah, I absolutely agree. Of course, I know the facts. But you said that Viktor Orb\u00e1n doesn’t know something. I cannot agree with that. I think Viktor Orb\u00e1n knows exactly what he’s doing, and he is acting in terms of his own wealth and money.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Viktor Orb\u00e1n is a populist and a nationalist and pro-Russian Hungarian leader who has a history of performatively threatening. He performs like threatening to play his veto card\u2014\u201cI’m going to veto this, I’m going to veto that\u201d\u2014but then he steps back. Every time, he steps back. And when European society is almost afraid, as it actually is because of Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s veto, he steps back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Why is that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Very simple. Because Viktor Orb\u00e1n has Kremlin’s support. He has had allies for more than 10 or 15 years and has very close ties with Putin and the Russians. But not only Orb\u00e1n, but all his government. P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, visits Russia and Belarus almost every time. By the way, Hungary is the only country, led by Orb\u00e1n, that supported the last anti-democratic elections in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Really? So he said he supports them, but does that mean Hungarian people are okay with that? They just say, “Okay, Orb\u00e1n said it, so maybe Belarus has a properly elected president.” My question is, Hungarian people can certainly protest if they are against Orb\u00e1n. Why is nothing happening there?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 It’s also a very simple answer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the way, Orb\u00e1n is not only anti-democratic but neo-fascist\u2014really neo-fascist. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, today, a lot of young Hungarian people are emigrating from Hungary because they don’t have any prospects or opportunities to realize their potential. Unfortunately, Orb\u00e1n has a very narrow-minded electoral base: narrow-minded voters, first of all people aged 60 and 65 plus, with seven or eight years of basic education, uneducated, and without the young population in Hungary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 If I say that Robert Fico induced Slovakia’s energy crisis to benefit the Kremlin, would you agree with that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Yes. Fico is the same as Orb\u00e1n, but he has a little bit less influence in Slovakia than Orb\u00e1n. He would like to benefit, and by the way, all money from natural gas in Hungary is directed to propaganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All this money is used for propaganda to feed low-educated people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 And it’s working, isn’t it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Unfortunately, yeah. It’s really working. By the way, Hungary has natural gas reserves for the population ten times more than Ukraine, but unfortunately today, we have a very passive Hungary, which is broken into two parts: Budapest, big cities, and the provincial parts, which Orb\u00e1n really controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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