George Soros Group Leaves Hungary, Citing 'Hate Campaign'

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Source: NPR

Billionaire George Soros' pro-democracy Open Society Foundations will pull out of Hungary following growing pressure from the right-wing government there.

Citing "an increasingly repressive political and legal environment" in Hungary, the OSF said in a statement that its decision to quit the country comes amid a crackdown on non-governmental organizations launched by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who won re-election to his fourth term in a landslide victory last month.

Orbán — who once received a $10,000 scholarship from the Soros Foundation to study political science at Oxford — has been locked in an escalating dispute with Soros. Orbán accuses Soros — a Jewish émigré who survived Nazi-occupied Hungary and later made his fortune in America — of trying to wrest control of their native country from those elected to office.

The OSF calls the campaign against it and its founder a "hate campaign [that] has included propaganda posters and billboards, invoking anti-Semitic imagery from World War II."

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/15/611204440/george-soros-group-leaves-hungary-citing-hate-campaign

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Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian Trump

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1. Hungary was a willing participant in all t he nazi atrocities nt

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3. Very much so. And while the dictator, Miklos Horthy, fled to Portugal,

many in his fascist regime were imported to the U.S. as "refugees" by Prescott Bush.

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4. "Hungarian authorities acted with an efficiency that surprised even the Germans"

https://www.ushmm.org/research/scholarly-presentations/conferences/the-holocaust-in-hungary-70-years-later/the-holocaust-in-hungary-frequently-asked-questions#7

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2. Imagine Soros' groups have put more attention to

vetting who they send to Oxford in later years. We know more now, also, and have a better understanding of extremism and of the relationship between many in the radical but still respectable left and the extremist left cum right that some will eventually migrate to.