#Orbán #antifa
"In February 11, 2023, neo-Nazis from across Europe descended on Budapest for the 'Day of Hono'” rally. The event commemorates an unusual set of martyrs: the German army and collaborationist Magyar fascists, defeated by the advancing Red Army during the siege of Budapest in the closing months of the Second World War. Thanks to the safe harbor provided by the authoritarian government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, it has become an annual gathering. Hosted this past February 8, the 2025 edition again attracted some 4,000 sympathizers.
The force of Orbán’s state apparatus has been on full display in its attempt to punish the 2023 counterdemonstrators. Hungarian authorities are now waging a concerted campaign to round up and seek punitive sentences against antifa activists, whom they accuse of violently assaulting Day of Honor attendees and inflicting what Budapest calls 'life-threatening injuries' on the presumed neo-Nazis.
In the last two years, that campaign has even taken on the scale of a Europe-wide manhunt, as Budapest tries to use the EU’s internal extradition protocols to round up left-wingers in other countries of the bloc. In total, Orbán’s government has sought the arrest or extradition of over a dozen activists.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/hungary-fascism-european-union-activism/
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