Orban was a kind of radical sheik figure. He started this party, hire and some university student chums toa fidech which was the association of young democrats. Their aim was to get rid of communists in him and bring about a democratic, very traditional, west european, liberal centrist government. That was their idea. Albon used to say his party was super col centres. So okivere religion was never mentioned. It was the party of cool. One would ask him, what doyou see? Let's say the commonest go sovet union goes, russian troops are no longer there. And he said, all i wanted to be a bor
The same man who helped usher in democracy in Hungary is the one who’s chipping away at it now. American conservatives want to know how Prime Minister Viktor Orban did it.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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