The Hungarian Prime Minister compared EU membership to Soviet occupation. Hours later several thousand demonstrators took to the streets decrying his comments and policies
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00:00 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban blasted the European Union on the anniversary of Hungary`s
00:07 1956 anti-Soviet uprising by comparing Hungary`s membership in the European Union to more than
00:13 four decades of Soviet occupation of his country. Orban accused the EU of seeking to strip Hungary
00:20 of its identity by imposing a model of liberal democracy that he said Hungarians reject.
00:25 We should dance like Moscow danced. If Brussels dances, we dance like we want to. And if we
00:32 don`t want to, we don`t dance.
00:39 Orban considered one of Russian President Vladimir Putin`s only allies in the EU had
00:44 to face the opposition of thousands of citizens on the streets on Monday. A demonstration
00:49 in Budapest criticizes government`s policies and its relationship with Russia despite the
00:54 war in Ukraine.
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