Author: sneff

1.6 Million Is Not “Hungary” — The Numbers Tell a Different Story

When the Hungarian government claims that “1.6 million people have spoken”, keep this number in mind:

👉 Number of people over the age of 20 in Hungary: 7,677,012
(Official data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office)
https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/nep/hu/nep0003.html

That means the often-cited 1.6 million respondents represent:

  • less than 21% of the adult population,
  • not a majority,
  • not “Hungary”,
  • but at most a self-selected, politically targeted group.

And this is only about the raw numbers.

🔻 The deeper problem goes beyond statistics:

  • no transparency about how the questionnaires were distributed,
  • no independent verification,
  • no public data on duplicates, pressure, or manipulation,
  • no insight into how questions were framed,
  • and no access to the actual content of the responses.

So when officials say
“this is what Hungarians want” or
“we represent Hungary”,

what they are really doing is:
➡️ presenting an unverifiable, government-controlled data collection as if it were a democratic mandate.

That is not democracy.
It is political messaging disguised as public consent.

Vitályos Eszter and the Next Stage of Government Fear Propaganda

Vitályos Eszter, spokesperson of the Hungarian government, has once again escalated political hysteria.

“Madness has reached a new level in the EU. First it was Willkommen, now it’s mandatory saluting in front of migrants.”

This statement is pure propaganda.
There is no such EU policy, proposal, or debate. No obligation, no “saluting,” no symbolic submission — only a fabricated image designed to provoke fear and anger.

This is not political communication.
This is deliberate incitement, built on exaggeration and outright falsehoods.

In Hungary, 2025, government officials no longer argue with facts — they manufacture enemies and mock reality itself to keep society in a constant state of panic.

There is no misunderstanding here.
This is intentional.

Hungary’s Public Media Claims Balance. Reality Says: NO.

Hungary’s public media claims it guarantees balanced, independent, and credible election coverage.

That is the official statement.

Reality:
NO.

Just to be absolutely clear:
NO.

So let there be no misunderstanding — neither domestically nor internationally:
NO.

In Hungarian:
NEM.

In Russian (just so it’s clear in the language Hungarian state media also understands):
НЕТ.

Varga Mihály is a Fidesz politician and, from March 2025, the Governor of the Hungarian National Bank.

The official message says:
“2027 második felére érhető el fenntartható módon az inflációs cél.”

Translation:
“The inflation target can be sustainably achieved in the second half of 2027.”

When reality no longer matters, it is enough to say something that sounds good.
It does not matter if it is credible.
It does not matter if it contradicts years of earlier statements.

What matters is that Hungarian propaganda needs this:
a sentence, a promise, a distant date that can be printed, broadcast, and repeated.

Not solutions — narratives.
Not results — messaging.

This is how the system works.

A Fictional “Austerity Plan” Used to Scare the Public


According to claims circulating in pro-government media, a 600-page document allegedly linked to Péter Magyar’s party would take 7,250 billion HUF from citizens and businesses under a future TISZA government.

There is just one problem: this document does not exist.

Despite this, a group called “Free Hungarians Against Austerity”—created by the government-aligned Center for Fundamental Rights—has launched a campaign warning about the “dangers” of these supposed austerity measures.

At the group’s founding event, Miklós Szánthó, Director General of the Center, claimed that the alleged TISZA “left-wing austerity package” reflects Brussels’ expectations and cynically added that the money would be “flushed down Ukrainian gold toilets.”

This is not policy analysis.
This is fear-mongering based on a fabricated document, designed to mislead the public, stir resentment, and divert attention from real issues.

Repeating a lie does not make it true—especially when no one can produce the document it is based on.

According to a 600-page document attributed to Péter Magyar’s party, a future TISZA government would take approximately 7,250 billion forints from citizens and businesses.

The “Free Hungarians Against Austerity” working group—created by the Center for Fundamental Rights—has warned about the dangers of these alleged austerity measures.

At the group’s founding event, Miklós Szánthó, Director General of the Center, stated that the left-wing austerity package attributed to TISZA reflects Brussels’ expectations, adding that the money would be “flushed down Ukrainian gold toilets.”

Orbán Claims Putin Promised Him Protection — If Hungary Votes “Correctly”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claims that Vladimir Putin personally assured him that Hungary would not face Russian retaliation if it voted “appropriately” at the EU summit.

According to a video published by a government-linked propagandist, Orbán said he had written to Putin weeks earlier, asking whether Moscow would respond if the EU seized frozen Russian central bank assets — and whether Russia would take into account how individual member states voted.

Orbán claims Putin replied that Russia would use all instruments of international law to retaliate, and that these responses would indeed depend on each country’s position.

“We Hungarians have protected ourselves,” Orbán said, adding that Hungary made it clear it would not support the seizure of any country’s frozen reserves — not only Russia’s.

Orbán also suggested that if the EU can seize Russian reserves, Hungary’s own reserves could be next, noting that part of Hungary’s foreign currency reserves are held in the same locations.

Following this, Orbán reportedly instructed Finance Minister Mihály Varga to find a way to relocate Hungary’s reserves — raising serious concerns about central bank independence.

This is not diplomacy.
This is open acknowledgment of political pressure, conditional voting, and foreign leverage inside the EU.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to the President of Russia; I do not know whether this became public.

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I asked him whether, if the Union were to seize the frozen Russian assets, there would be retaliatory measures,

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and whether, in the course of those retaliatory measures, the Russians would take into account how each country voted on this decision.

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And I received a reply stating that, using all instruments of international law, there would be strong retaliatory measures,

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and that they would take into account how each member state of the Union had taken a position.

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So we Hungarians have protected ourselves, and we made it clear — and I do so again now — that Hungary will not support the seizure of the frozen foreign currency reserves of any country,

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not only Russia, but any country.

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Hungary will not support this under any circumstances.

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Moreover, there is another branching but important issue, because Hungarian foreign currency reserves are also held in the same place where the Russian ones are now.

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And if it is possible to take the Russians’ reserves once, what if it occurs to someone to take the Hungarians’ as well?

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Therefore, I have already instructed the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the central bank that, if this decision is made,

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they should immediately submit a proposal to the government on how we should think, under such circumstances, about the secure placement of Hungary’s foreign currency reserves.

Szentkirályi Alexandra and the Politics of False Connections

Szentkirályi Alexandra claims that removing a Fidesz-proposed “migration threat” debate from the agenda of the Budapest City Assembly proves that Mayor Gergely Karácsony is “protecting the TISZA party” and helping them “hide” the fact that the EU migration pact was voted on in Brussels.

This claim collapses under basic scrutiny.

The Budapest City Assembly has no legal authority over EU migration policy, EU treaties, or votes held in Brussels. It cannot approve, block, or conceal an EU migration pact. Removing a topic from the city assembly’s agenda is an administrative and jurisdictional decision, not an act of “defending migrants” or shielding any political party.

Linking a local procedural decision to an EU-level legislative process is a deliberate distortion. The EU migration pact was debated and voted on within EU institutions — involving national governments and the European Parliament — not city councils.

By framing a routine agenda decision as proof of conspiracy, Szentkirályi Alexandra is not describing reality, but manufacturing fear through false cause-and-effect. This is a textbook example of propaganda: mixing unrelated political levels, assigning hidden motives without evidence, and presenting speculation as fact.

Budapest’s city government cannot “hide” EU votes.
It cannot “protect” or “expose” EU migration policy.
And removing a debate proposal does not change what happened in Brussels.

This is not governance.
It is narrative construction.

Official statement by TISZA

Official statement by TISZA

On Monday, I turned to the Budapest Metropolitan Court and requested that the court immediately prohibit the government-affiliated tabloid Bors from spreading total lies at taxpayers’ expense in four million copies across the country.

As is well known, several courts have previously ruled that government propaganda has been spreading outright falsehoods about TISZA.

Those in power are afraid, and that is why they have now escalated the situation: they intend to spend billions of forints in public money to deliver, in a 16-page publication, the outrageous lies written by Orbán and his circle to every household.

The court must decide on this matter without delay and must prohibit Orbán and his associates from distributing the smear sheet called Bors. Even if the court were to rule weeks later that every word of Orbán’s propaganda is a lie, by then it would be impossible to remove the garbage from people’s mailboxes.

It is entirely reasonable to expect that, in a case of such gravity, the court should not delay its decision any further.

A Non-Existent Document, a Real Fear Campaign

The real problem is not the amount — it’s the lie

The issue is not that large sums are being mentioned.

The issue is that the government pushes the blame onto TISZA
by referring to a non-existent document they claim was written by TISZA.

There is no verified TISZA document that contains these figures.
There is no published program proposing a 1,300 billion HUF extraction from Hungarians.
There is no EU decision obliging Hungary to pay this amount.

Yet the claim is repeated as fact.

This is not political debate.
This is manufactured reality — attributing false documents and false numbers to the opposition
in order to create fear and redirect responsibility.

When a government invents documents and assigns them to its opponents,
the problem is no longer policy.

The problem is deliberate disinformation.

(0:00) The President of the European Commission wrote a letter. She said that we Europeans should put together 135 billion euros for Ukraine.
(0:07) That equals roughly 50,000 billion forints.
(0:12) From this, the share that would fall on Hungarians, on Hungary, would be approximately 1,200–1,300 billion forints.
(0:19) And what does this amount equal?
It equals what TISZA would take from people in the first step.
(0:24) That is also 1,300 billion forints, which is included in their own economic program.
(0:28) So it’s not a coincidence that the two numbers match.
(0:31) What would the money be used for?
Obviously not to preserve family support programs — while they have promised to narrow them —
(0:36) but rather they need this enormous amount of money
(0:42) to satisfy the European elite, their own party family,
(0:46) their own bosses, Ursula von der Leyen and Manfred Weber,
so that Hungarians contribute financially to the funding of Ukraine.
This is what next spring’s election is about.