Category: Hungarian Government Propaganda on Facebook

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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.

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.

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.

This video is circulating widely on Facebook and is based on a claim that does not exist.

It refers to a so-called “leaked TISZA document” that allegedly proposes a yearly tax on dogs and cats and higher VAT on pet food.
No such document has been published.
No draft law exists.
No verifiable source is provided.

This is not information — it is fear-mongering.

Using people’s pets to spread panic is a deliberate propaganda tactic. It replaces facts with invented threats and emotional manipulation.

This content is designed to provoke fear, not to inform the public.

This video cannot be interpreted as anything other than political disinformation.

(0:00) It is shocking how far the left can go with a series of austerity measures.
(0:04) Based on the so-called “TISZA leaked document,” they would already impose a tax even on our household pets — cats and dogs.
(0:10) What?
(0:11) They would charge 18,000 forints per year and would also raise the VAT on pet food.
(0:16) In contrast, the government has supported responsible pet ownership this year alone with 500 million forints.

Hungary has a population of nearly 9.6 million people, even accounting for demographic decline.
Against that backdrop, 1.6 million responses do not represent:

• “the will of the Hungarian people,”
• a national consensus,
• or democratic authorization for major political claims.

Yet this number is repeatedly used as a political weapon, implying that anyone who questions the narrative is “going against the Hungarian people.”

This is classic manipulation:

• an unverifiable figure,
• presented as unquestionable truth,
• used to silence criticism.

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Questioning the Narrative Is Not an Attack on Citizens

Challenging this claim is not an attack on 1.6 million people.
It is a challenge to a non-transparent political instrument.

Democracy does not mean:

“We decide how many you are and what you think.”

Democracy means:

• decisions are verifiable,
• processes are transparent,
• results are independently validated.

None of that applies here.

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Why This Matters

This is not a left-right issue.
It is about using unverifiable numbers to justify political decisions,
while the actual views of society remain unknown.

👉 This is not really about peace, taxes, or Brussels.
👉 This is about the difference between reality and propaganda.

And everyone has the right to see that difference.

Viktor Orbán:
“The TISZA people compare Hungarians to pigs waiting to be slaughtered. If TISZA comes, the knife will come too — in the form of the TISZA tax and the TISZA austerity package. We cannot allow this!”

This message appears day and night in propaganda materials across Hungary in 2025.
This advertisement was produced by Fidesz, and of course, no such statement was ever made.

“According to TISZA, we should become a society like Australia, where 15 people have just been killed in the name of the Islamic State.”

This statement appears on Hungarian public radio and is attributed to Eszter Vitályos, Spokesperson for the Government of Hungary.

There seems to be no lower point left in Hungary.
The Hungarian state and Fidesz are using false and misleading claims to keep society in fear and panic, abusing real-world tragedies for political purposes.
This is Hungary in 2025.