An entire arena is applauding, including many Fidesz supporters.
And by now even they no longer know what actually happened during their own party’s time in power, because propaganda is propaganda.
This is the point where, for large crowds, it no longer matters what is really happening:
it’s no longer about common sense, but about winning at any cost, because otherwise there will be consequences.
And for that, everyone is used.
Even our own Fidesz people are told to lie.
I called Mihály Varga, the President of the National Bank, and asked him whether I remembered correctly that Hungary’s gold reserves were 3 tons in 2010. He said yes, I remembered correctly.
I then said: help me out, tell me what they are now. He said: 110 tons.
So the gold reserves increased from 3 tons to 110 tons.
If we put this into more everyday terms and say that in 2010 I had 3 million forints in my savings account, and over 15 years it grew to 110 million, that would be a significant increase in wealth, right?
Well, it’s the same with the gold reserves.
Contrary to popular belief, the gradual reduction of Hungary’s gold reserves did not begin after the regime change, but already in the second half of the 1980s. At that time, the reserves were reduced from nearly 80 tons first to 50 tons, and by 1993 they had fallen to the long-standing level of 3.1 tons at the central bank.
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance was in government in Hungary during the following period:
1998–2002
During this time, nothing changed with regard to the gold reserves.
In the autumn of 2018, the Hungarian National Bank announced that it would increase the country’s gold reserves tenfold.
