Orbán targets Ukraine’s EU bid with shocking AI video featuring Hungarian coffins and soldiers
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“We do not want our children to be sent to the Ukrainian front and see them come home from there in a coffin,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a video posted on Facebook on Monday.
Orbán published a video with a fake statement
The video starts with a statement by former chief of staff Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, of the opposition Tisza Party, saying that “if Ukraine were a member of the EU or NATO… it would be right for our forces to go there”.
Ruszin-Szendi spoke about this in an interview six months ago, but the sentence has been taken out of context and, moreover, the train of thought has been clearly cut off. The rest of the sentence, “the forces of the North Atlantic countries, without that, could be a casus belli for Russia,” has been omitted. Ruszin-Szendi has since stated several times that it is a lie that he said anyone would send Hungarian soldiers to Ukraine.
“We do not want our children to be sent to the Ukrainian fronts or even to Ukrainian territory in the form of Hungarian troops and see them come home in a coffin,” Orbán says in the video. The video also calls on people to “click now and vote no on the voks2025.hu website”.
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Day of 1956 Martyrs
“To remain free today, too, requires courage,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday, marking the day of 1956 martyrs.
In a video posted on Facebook, Orbán referred to a speech he gave at the reburial of Imre Nagy and his fellow martyrs on June 16, 1989. “In 1989 the Russians had to be sent home so we could be free,” he declared. “It took great courage back then, and it takes courage today, too, to remain free. Empires come and go; we will not run away.”
Orbán noted that in 1989 it had been suggested to him that having given a big speech on March 15, he should not speak at the reburial since a political party’s strength “should not depend on one person”. But the confutation was that the speech may go down well in front of a crowd of 200,000-300,000 and it may be the last chance “to say important things, seriously meant, to the country and to the world”.