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The Means Of Destruction
28 November 2023
12 September 2019
The announcement that Radio Free Europe will resume in Hungary has been welcomed with mixed feelings.
On the one hand, there is enthusiasm – especially by a group of journalists and experts who have raised alarm bells about the gradual collapse of the democratic system in this country. However, for those who remember the recent past correctly, the development comes as a bitter reflection that Hungarian freedom must again be defended by an agency from the Cold War set up in the United States.
Hungary was then recognized as an society without information sovereignty (meaning the people did not have access to reliable information), and now, once again, freedom will be sustained by an American institution.
A distorted view