Why did I call Hungary poor? Because in just over a decade of Orbán’s rule, it has become so degraded that it is one of the poorest EU countries, significantly lagging behind our prosperous Lithuania. And what does self-respect have to do with it? Because how can one visit a country whose ruler openly harms the EU and NATO and even more openly helps Putin’s Russia?
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It was roughly the same as going to Belarus and babbling about how everything is fine there.
Orbán’s Hungary was simultaneously Putin’s ambassador, spy, and executor of mandates. It was a festering sore on the body of Europe. So how morally sick must one be to willingly want to leave their money there? From a moral perspective, it was roughly the same as going to Belarus and babbling about how everything is fine there.
But, thank God, things have recently changed. No longer able to endure the slide to the bottom, in this spring’s elections, Hungarians, with a very solid majority of votes, overthrew Orbán and elected a government that looks more normal.
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I myself followed those elections that Sunday evening very anxiously, unable to believe that I was worried about a small, poor, and insignificant Hungary (usually I only follow elections in Lithuania, the USA, Germany, and France with such interest).
Then the following Monday was a good day because it became clear that the festering sore had burst and Europeans would no longer be poisoned by Russian rot. However, this good news also meant that Hungary is only now beginning its long path to recovery, trying to regain what the pig-headed one had taken from it.
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