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Building Civic Resilience: Challenges and Solutions in Central Europe
12 December 2024
9 August 2022
Viktor Orbán caused a media outrage with his recent speech claiming that Hungarians do not want to become a ‘mixed race.’
The international reaction is understandable, but the speech did not contain anything that the Hungarian Prime Minister had not already been saying for many years.
Orbán has long styled himself as an ideologist of ‘illiberalism.’ Still, his rhetorical talent is only an instrument of his political survival strategy, which has relied heavily on opportunism typical for post-Soviet autocrats.
The most interesting part was left out of his speech, and it has to do with how the war in Ukraine brought Hungary, an EU member state, much closer to the post-Soviet regimes and their opportunistic ‘multivectorness.’