Take a look at this❗️
This is how much we would be paying for utilities without Russian energy and without the utility price reduction!
The bill was sent from Berlin!
Take a look at this❗️
This is how much utilities would cost without the utility price cap and without Russian energy.
I received an annual settlement from Germany, from Berlin, with this message and this note.
A pensioner living in Berlin, who has lived there for decades in a small apartment, wrote to me and said that he paid €3,250 per year for gas and water, plus €56 per month for electricity.
So in total, his annual utility costs amount to — calculated at 380 HUF per euro (the forint is strong now) — 1,489,000 forints per year for gas, water, and electricity.
That means he pays more than 120,000 forints per month for gas, water, and electricity.
This is what the utility costs would be here as well — in Budapest, in Hungary — even for a small studio apartment.
🔴 1️⃣ “The bill was sent from Berlin” – anecdote instead of evidence
Technique: anecdotal proof
- an unknown pensioner
- unknown apartment size
- unknown consumption
- unknown tariff
- unknown year
👉 One bill ≠ national reality
This is not data, it’s storytelling.
📌 Classic propaganda trick:
“not statistics, but a human story” → emotional credentialing
🔴 2️⃣ Deliberate conflation: gas + water + electricity = one single “utility cost”
Trick: artificially merging different costs
- In Germany, water and sewage are often more expensive than here
- Water has nothing to do with Russian energy
- yet it’s presented as if:
👉 “without Russian gas = everything becomes expensive”
📌 This is false cause-and-effect.
🔴 3️⃣ Forint–euro magic: numerical shock framing
“1,489,000 forints”
This is a psychological trick.
- in euros: around €4,000/year
- in forints: a shockingly large number
- “the forint is strong” → built-in self-justification
🎯 Effect:
the listener doesn’t calculate — they just panic
🔴 4️⃣ “This is what it would cost in Budapest too” – pure fiction
❌ There is no:
- Hungarian consumption data
- Hungarian tariff calculation
- apartment size
- heating method
- building energy rating
👉 This is not a statement, but a fear-based prediction.
📌 Typical fear projection:
“if it’s not us → Berlin hell is coming”
🔴 5️⃣ Unspoken but crucial facts (deliberately omitted)
In Germany:
- incomes are higher
- energy efficiency is better
- apartments are better insulated
In Hungary:
the so-called “utility price cuts” don’t appear on the bill, but in:
- taxes
- inflation
- postponed maintenance
- budget holes
👉 This is a hidden cost, not free energy.
🔴 6️⃣ Pattern match with Alexandra
The exact same recipe:
- abroad = nightmare
- one person’s story = “evidence”
- a huge number in forints
- “without Russian energy we’d freeze to death”
- fear-mongering with no alternatives
📌 This is not information — it’s a dependency narrative.
🎯 One-sentence summary
This is not a utility cost calculation, but emotional blackmail built on an unknown bill, used to manufacture political loyalty.