I’ve just been to Budapest on a school trip and while I did love the city and (for the most part) Hungarians I was really surprised by how blatant and unapologetic the government propaganda was.
Take this giant sign for example I took this photo just outside Memento Park but this was hardly the only one. I counted at least 20 while on the bus from the city centre, and there were another three in close proximity of this.
Are there any other examples of this in hungary?
https://i.redd.it/l16kq2onr0xc1.jpeg
by just_a_cursed_guy
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Yeah, Hungarian government are far-right populists who have taken over the media and the public sphere almost completely, thus making it pretty impossible to lose elections. Is it still democracy if the ruling power has the ability to suppress the opposition to this extent? And such fear-mongering as pictured here is obviously the key to staying in power. In my opinion Hungary is basically an authoritarian country now.
It’s obviously extremely problematic for entire Europe – we have a member of NATO and EU that is anti-democratic and pro-Russian – but I also feel genuinely very sorry for Hungarians, I’ve met quite a lot of them and they were really good lads. Well, at least the younger ones that travelled abroad 😉
This has been posted before:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1cdg0sh/this_is_one_of_v_orb%C3%A1ns_anti_lgbt_propaganda/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1cdg0sh/this_is_one_of_v_orb%C3%A1ns_anti_lgbt_propaganda/)
The poster says the following:
Brussels’ humble servants (Ursula von der Leyen)
Ferenc Gyurcsány: migration
Gergely Karácsony: gender
Klára Dobrev: women dressed as men
Péter Magyar: war
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Basically this is what the EU wants to force Hungary to become according to them. The people mentioned are the biggest opposition figures who want to serve Hungary to Brussels on a silver plate.
Yes this is quite common everywhere in the country. The propaganda has cost us at least 1309 billion forints (3.3 billion €) in the past 5 years.
I looked at that and initially saw Von der Leyen surrounded by snooker referees.
It gives the hate targets for an average Fidesz voter:
* Brussels (not the EU, that word is reserved for good things, this is for the evil thing, which “tries to take away our country”)
* Migration (which is what Orban fights against by words, but quietly helps from the Philippines in 100,000s when GDP numbers worsening),
* Gender (99% of the targeted audience conditioned to think this is about “surgically change the gender of toddlers”)
Terribly primitive, but if all info sources are occupied by Orban, also terrible effective on the long run.
Do you want more of that disgusting stuff? Here you are
[https://media1.hu/2023/11/22/eltunteti-a-kormany-soros-gyorgy-fianak-kezet-a-nemzeti-konzultacionak-nevezett-propagandakampany-plakatjairol/](https://media1.hu/2023/11/22/eltunteti-a-kormany-soros-gyorgy-fianak-kezet-a-nemzeti-konzultacionak-nevezett-propagandakampany-plakatjairol/)
[https://assets.4cdn.hu/kraken/77CXHmPw7L2k1HUqus.jpeg](https://assets.4cdn.hu/kraken/77CXHmPw7L2k1HUqus.jpeg)
[https://hvg.hu/itthon/20190314_Vege_a_plakatkampanynak](https://hvg.hu/itthon/20190314_Vege_a_plakatkampanynak)
The relationship between the EU and Hungary: It’s like a little dog that keeps biting you, and the owner (the EU) says: ‘Poor little chap, you can’t blame him, he’s just a bit stupid, so we’ll keep him.’
The poster looks like some TV drama shit. I mean Hungarians are educated and travel out of their country, right? So its not like they cannot see through it? Or am I expecting too much? Also if they are against EU why are they in EU? They can do whatever the Hungarian version of Brexit is.
Something written in uralic, can’t say
Propaganda by Orban, Putin’s official ass-licker.
Have you been living under a rock? This has been par for the course for Hungary for a decade already.
Wait thats real? Its so stupid I thought it was satire.
For us hungarians also shameful that this is happening in our country. We try to fight against it, but unfortunately a lot of people believe it, especially the older ones.
Designed by the best PR agency in Moscow.
How much crack goes through Hungary?
This is where my tax goes…
It’s infuriating waste of public funds when the country is so poor and uneducated , most corruption in the EU and least English speaking and among the least competitive.
They bitch continuously about the evil EU , yet take billions and never pay back to the institution. They pretend to have Christian values yet close to nobody here is religious.
It’s pretty obvious Orban has kept people poor and stupid while him and his cronies nationalize everything from media to grocery stores , making his dumb friends filthy rich while everybody else suffers and it breeds apathy.
Then blame the gays … lol, it’s pathetic
Other eastern bloc countries have developed much faster and stronger. Even Romania overtakes them now in development. ..hungarys currency is devalued after failed economic policy and price fixing (Soviet style) which lead to the highest inflation rate in EU. Middling closer to Bulgaria.
It’s a wasteland, and Orban should be held accountable.
I feel for people tho.: they’re so depressed, can see it everybody’s faces … it’s a relief to visit other countries and see smiles again
If Brussels is such an evil, why don’t just Hexit? Don’t Orban’s voters understand that the same ‘evil Brussels’ sends them money?
✨Orbán propaganda ✨ fuck I hate that guy
Just the asshole government
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East Asia is our enemy now and always has been.
Orban is Putin’s little cocksucker whore. Nothing new.
It has Ursula von der Leyen with butlers presenting Migration, gender craze and warfare.
The top text means “bow down to brussels”
Not really that far fetched imo.
Nemelég kreatív
Idk
One plate of gender please
Kinda feel sorry for you Hungarians, cause your own government, thinks you’re retarded. And only because of that I would elect somebody else.
His buddy Vucic is using similar tactics. We don’t have these kinds of posters / billboards but TV and media are full of this crap. It’s sad to see how easily people are being manipulated by the pro government media.
Nice to see the EU has her money spent on stuff like this.
/s
More brainless Fidesz propaganda. This is what they waste our tax dollars on. You get a new one of these along the same lines every month. [Look at the 2 pics in this article for another 2 recent ones.](https://mfor.hu/cikkek/kozelet/karacsony-gergely-marki-zay-peter-fekete-gyor-andras-dk-tasz-szemelyisegi-jogok-plakathaboru-heindl-peter.html)
They all follow the same format:
– pictures of everybody Fidesz has a beef with atm. EU politicians, past and present political opponents, boogeymen like eg. Soros family. Doesn’t matter if there is 0 relationship between them, which political side, which country they are. Fidesz is trying to push them as some grand conspiracy and have you associate them all as one big bad.
– throw in some scaaary words. *War. Migration. Gender.* Most of these aren’t even serious topics in Hungary. (Migration hasn’t been an issue since the [2015 global crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_European_migrant_crisis) and even then it barely brushed us. Hungary is super conservative and there is barely any subculture, public information or discourse even on vanilla sexual freedom, so we haven’t even reached a point where we could BEGIN to have any conversation on LGBT topics like in the West. And there is no war here despite Fidesz [ruling by decree](https://helsinki.hu/en/government-gains-excessive-powers-from-forever-renewable-state-of-danger/) since 2020 citing “war crisis” as the justification.)
No, they’re basically following the same recipe as Russia where they try to point at minorities and foreigners as scapegoats to keep their voters in constant fear.
None of these posters even make a lick of sense. You’d think the opposition politicians holding those words are big supporters or something right?, nah. It’s completely random.
And yet millions of euros per month are spent constantly on this garbage. Even though government propaganda is incredibly ridiculous, it’s quantity over quality, they spend so much on it, you can’t move from the stuff, it’s on billboards, tv, internet, in free newsheets and on magazine covers, and all of it is on this same level of a braindead 2 year old.
They forgot to say “Loads and loads of EU-money given to Hungary, without Hungary contributing”