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16 March 2023
Across Europe, pro-Ukrainian support and messages have been steadfast in these many months following the large-scale invasion…except in the propaganda of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
When Russia a year ago started an overt, grand-scale and unprovoked invasion against Ukraine, popular opinion stood and sympathised with the victims immediately, and governmental responses followed this line. Pro-Russian voices might have been present in many countries, but they did not prevail or determine the mainstream narrative in EU countries, with one notable exception: propaganda-filled Hungary.
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While civil society organised itself immediately to help the refugees, the government’s rhetoric did not move from its pro-Russian stance. The invasion found Hungary at the finish of the parliamentary elections campaign and quickly became its leading theme.