“We’ll tear out your tongue and throw it to the dogs.” “Your blood will flow into the Danube before oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline.” — this is how the Ukrainian lieutenant general sent his message to Viktor Orbán.
Hryhoriy Omelchenko has once again issued a death threat against the Hungarian prime minister. All this came after Zelensky, and then this Ukrainian officer, had threatened Viktor Orbán, his children, and his grandchildren with death.
Just imagine: a country like this wants to join the European Union starting in January.
These are the people who fantasize about the death of a pro-peace prime minister and his family, or who have been blackmailing Hungary for more than a month.
And it is with this country and its leaders that the Hungarian left is cooperating.
Péter Magyar and his representatives in Brussels voted for unconditional support for Ukraine, or posed in blue-and-yellow shirts — that is how the Zelensky–TISZA tandem operates.
There is a line that Kyiv’s military leadership has crossed many times over. This is no longer just about Viktor Orbán. The threats made by Zelensky and his people are an open attack against all Hungarians, and we must reject them in the strongest possible terms.
On Sunday, come all of you to the biggest Peace March, and let us stand together for Hungary’s independence and security. Only Fidesz is the safe choice!
“Vitya, we’ll tear out your tongue and throw it to the dogs.” That is what the Ukrainian general said — the same one who had earlier issued a death threat against Viktor Orbán’s grandchildren.
The very last sentence in your text is heavily garbled, so it cannot be translated reliably word for word.
1️⃣ Shock effect built from a cropped quote (selective quote / distortion framing)
Excerpt
“…this Ukrainian officer issued a death threat against Viktor Orbán, his children and his grandchildren.”
Technique
The communication treats a disputed or partially cut source excerpt as an established fact. The uncertain or manipulated base information is not presented as a question but as a closed reality.
Goal
To provoke immediate outrage in the audience rather than doubt.
Effect
The reader does not weigh what exactly was said but is already pushed into a prepared emotional state:
➡️ “the prime minister’s family has been attacked.”
2️⃣ Turning a single person into an entire nation (collective blame)
Excerpt
“…such a country wants to join the European Union in January.”
“Zelensky’s threat is an open attack against all Hungarians…”
Technique
A statement from a retired, extreme-tone individual is reframed as the behavior of “Ukraine” as a whole. A personal remark is magnified into a collective national threat.
Goal
To build general hostility toward Ukraine.
Effect
The reader may feel:
➡️ “this wasn’t one extremist speaking — Ukraine itself is threatening us.”
3️⃣ Using family emotions for political mobilization (family fear framing)
Excerpt
“…Viktor Orbán, his children and his grandchildren…”
“…the death of the peace-supporting prime minister and his family…”
Technique
The text frames the political conflict as a family-protection issue. Instead of presenting it as a foreign policy or communication matter, it emphasizes threats involving children and grandchildren.
Goal
To trigger a strong instinctive reaction and reduce critical distance.
Effect
The reader does not see political communication but rather:
➡️ “an attack against a family.”
4️⃣ Moral demonization of the opponent (enemy demonization)
Excerpt
“…those who are envisioning the death of the peace-supporting prime minister and his family…”
“…the Kyiv military leadership…”
“…an open attack against all Hungarians…”
Technique
The opponent is not portrayed simply as a political rival but as morally corrupt, dangerous, almost inhuman.
Goal
To make calm interpretation or nuance impossible.
Effect
The reader is more likely to accept that with such actors there should be no debate, only total rejection.
5️⃣ Transferring guilt onto the opposition (guilt by association)
Excerpt
“The Hungarian left is cooperating with this country and its leaders.”
“…this is how the Zelensky–TISZA tandem works.”
Technique
Domestic opposition is linked to an external threat. The message is not that the opposition has a different foreign policy position, but that it cooperates with those threatening Hungarians.
Goal
To undermine the legitimacy of the opposition as a political actor.
Effect
The reader may conclude:
➡️ “they are not just thinking differently — they are acting against Hungarian interests.”
6️⃣ Dividing the world into “peaceful us” vs. “warlike them” (binary moral framing)
Excerpt
“…the peace-supporting prime minister…”
“Only Fidesz is the safe choice!”
Technique
The communication constructs a black-and-white moral world:
- one side = peace, security, Hungary
- the other side = threat, war, foreign interests
Goal
To turn the election into a moral loyalty test.
Effect
The reader feels they are not choosing between parties but between:
➡️ “peace and threat.”
7️⃣ Turning a threat into national victimhood (national victimhood framing)
Excerpt
“…an open attack against all Hungarians…”
“…we must reject it in the strongest possible way.”
Technique
A personal insult or threat is elevated into a collective national grievance.
Goal
To mobilize collective identity and enforce unity.
Effect
The reader may feel:
➡️ “if Orbán is attacked, all Hungarians are attacked.”
8️⃣ Packaging reality together with campaign mobilization (event-to-mobilization conversion)
Excerpt
“On Sunday, come all of you to the largest Peace March…”
Technique
The stirred-up emotion is immediately linked to concrete political action: attend, join, line up, show support.
Goal
To convert outrage into organized political energy.
Effect
The text does not merely provoke anger — it directs that emotion toward participation.
9️⃣ Authority inflation (inflating rank and status)
Excerpt
“Ukrainian lieutenant general”
“the Kyiv military leadership”
Technique
The speaker’s status is amplified so that the statement appears to be an official Ukrainian state threat. In reality, the situation is more nuanced, as Omelchenko is not a current state decision-maker.
Goal
To increase the perceived credibility and weight of the threat.
Effect
The reader perceives not a marginal figure speaking but a message seemingly coming from an entire state’s military-political leadership.
🔟 Emotional fixation through repetition (repetition for emotional fixation)
Excerpt
“death threat”
“threatened”
“open attack”
“security”
“safe choice”
Technique
Repeating key phrases does not add new information but reinforces emotional conditioning.
Goal
To imprint the core feeling: there is danger, and there is only one protector.
Effect
The message becomes a simple, memorable campaign narrative.
Overall picture
This text is not informational but mobilizing propaganda. Its structure roughly follows this pattern:
- It starts from a disputed or manipulated claim.
- It magnifies that claim into a national-level threat.
- It connects the domestic opposition to that threat.
- Then it converts the whole narrative into a call for political participation.
The strongest manipulative element is that an entire emotional-political narrative is built on a cropped or distorted interpretation.
If the underlying claim weakens, the credibility of the entire narrative weakens with it.