I was researching a little more about
Hungary, and the more I read, the scared I get. The similarities with the 1926-74 portuguese fascist regime are frightening.
I'm gonna try to make a summary of the most relevant things I read in portuguese media and I'll leave the links for those who can read portuguese.
Most of this information is unfortunatelly confirmed by the PressEurop articles, which you can read in other languages.
So, are you ready?
Hungary is today a proto-dictatorship in plain EU, which nobody cares about, nobody cares - neither Barroso and Merkel [as long as Hungary continues making products for other bigger and richer countries to consume with a low cost, it's alright].
Just a few examples of what happens in that hole that turned into a proto-fascist regime... After the IMF have been there a few years ago (2006, I guess):
1) The New Constitution [designed by Viktor Orbán's party, FIDESZ, which was once center-right] motto is just like portuguese Constitution during the "Estado Novo" regime (1933-1974): "God, Fatherland and Family";
2) Criminalization of the Left parties and the extreme right (because this last one, JOBBIK, is an electoral threat to FIDESZ). Opposition leaders have already been arrested during demonstrations;
3) The Government did whut down radios and vehicles of media linked with the opposition;
4) It is forbidden to be homeless and is prohibited scour and collect garbage. Anyone caught living on the street is put to work on public works, as well as the unemployed - in a program that (like Hitler) Orbán calls "the public work";
5) Jews and Gypsies (or descendant from these) are chased, beaten and maybe who knows what else;
6) «"The model is China, assured Orbán, in late June of 2011:" A country that was not dominated by Western ideas of the left, that waste time with books is the best way to improve the economic indicators. Over there [China], work is the structural pilar"»;
7) The global crisis in 2008, did the rest. The troika [IMF, UE, ECB] joined and with it, more cuts in this society proverbially melancholy (with one of the highest suicide rates in the world). Unemployment rose. The ghosts returned. Orbán realized the new feeling of fatigue in the country.
8) «The latest poll shows that only one in three Hungarians vote again if there were elections.»
9) School textbooks now include Nazi and anti-Semitic "Heroes", and hundreds of schools were donated to the Catholic Church;
10) «To avoid talking about politics (including the MTV, public TV - Magiar Television, not Music Television) is the most effective way for the media to defend themselves against the Media Authority - the organ of censorship;
11) The TEK is "new anti-terrorist police, led by the head of the bodyguard of Orbán 'that' can do intercept telephone call and make house searches without a warrant";
12) «Many cars, including Orbán's official one, bring along the registration, the symbol of "The Greater Hungary" which is the map of the country before Trianon (which included part of Slovakia, one third of Romania and Croatia), the treaty that penalized the country's defeat in World War. Today, Trianon is still the symbol of Hungarian frustrations.»... This is, chillingly equal to Hitler's Germany's "Vital Space";
13) «Since the City Council passed to the hands of JOBBIK (further extreme right), the "Hungarians" have classes on the first floor, the "gypsies" on the ground floor.»
14) «The document [the new Constitution] is so radical that the United States and the European Union considered it an attack on democracy.»
15) «In the new document, the term "Republic of Hungary" disappears and is replaced by "Hungary". Moreover, there is, first, an explicit religious reference - «God bless the Hungarians»
3) «The constitution also precludes any recognition of gay marriages and decrees the embryo as a human being from conception, preventing the legalization of abortion.»
4) «(...) the opposition radio, the Klubradio, has already lost its frequency.»
Keep reading and let the chills go down your spine. It's right next door.
Do many people talk about it? No.
Do the media pay much attention to it? No.
Do the EU care about this case? Not that much.
All the info was taken from these sites which you can read if you understand portuguese:
Viagem ao fim da democracia - Visao.pt
http://www.ionline.pt/mundo/nova-constituicao-governo-budapeste-abre-portas-ditadura
Heróis, anti-semitas e nazis: a história que os húngaros não conseguem ler - Mundo - PUBLICO.PT
Eurodeputado neonazi da Hungria descobriu que tinha raízes judaicas - Mundo - PUBLICO.PT