Hungary’s Orbán: EU ‘Still Making Excuses for Crimes of Communism’

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Hungary’s Orbán: EU ‘Still Making Excuses for Crimes of Communism’
 
by Jack Montgomery27 Feb 2017108

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“Many in the West today are still making excuses for the crimes of communism; even the European Union itself is reluctant to unequivocally condemn them,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said.

Speaking at an event to mark Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism on Saturday, the populist leader noted the left wing ideology “emerged in the 20th century as an intellectual product of the West [but] in the end it was we Central Europeans who were forced to live under this originally Western idea”.

Orbán underlined that, in the West, communism remained nothing more than a theory, providing “tingling intellectual excitement [for] meddlesome global utopians” such as Sidney and Beatrice Webb, prominent figures in Fabian socialism accused of acting as apologists for the Soviet Union.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/02/27/hungary-pm-eu-many-west-still-making-excuses-crimes-communism/

[endicom]

A populist and a nationalist. If you're a trendy buzzword buzzard, anyway.

[dfwgator]

What's telling is that in 1968, the Communist students that were rioting throughout Europe actually sided with the Soviet Union in crushing the Dubcek-led government in Czechoslovakia.

And these are the people who ultimately gained control of many governments throughout Western Europe, especially France.