If this doesn't scare Vladimir Putin to death, then nothing scares him, writes vasarnap.hu , after Momentum organized another homemade asphalt drawing competition, this time demanding the release of Russian public figure Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny. From the Lila group, Berni, Bandi and Áki appeared in front of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in T-shirts with the inscription "Free Navalny" and equipped with spray paint, to paint their demand "#FreeNavalny" in front of the entrance with skillful fine motor skills, and then leave satisfied.
On the one hand, why do two Hungarian parliamentarians and a Hungarian prime minister-designate-designate in Hungary communicate with the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in English? It is clear that the set of letters "Release Navalny" would have consumed 50 percent more paint, but whoever buys a separate T-shirt for every second performance from Bangladeshi imports delivered by the help of large ships in order to print his current message, probably does not have the main motivation of saving resources.
Of course, the explanation is that the action was not aimed so much at the Hungarian audience, but rather at foreign kindergarten teachers and uncles - the three moments wanted to be produced for them.
In such a case, however, it is completely unnecessary to scribble on the pavement. There is, for example, Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest: he simply took a picture of himself in front of his desk the other day with a paper with the inscription #FreeAhmedSamir in his hand, in a slightly contrived Greta Thunberg pose, with a sad and demanding look, to protest an Egyptian CEU student studying in Vienna. (this is an important area of responsibility of the city manager in Budapest). So this is more than enough to make a politician look like a puppet without ideas working from foreign syllabuses; it is not necessary to bow before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while shaking a can of paint.
Not least because it is not clear why any oppositionist thinks that the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is supposedly isolated to the extreme and operates merely as Putin's puppet theater, could do anything to reform the Russian justice system into a Euro-compliant one. Now then, Péter Szijjártó would be more powerful than the entire Western world combined, and he would be subject to a discreet frown, and the prison doors would open all over the Eastern world, would Szamír Ahmed be able to run freely across the field and the scoundrel Alexey Navalny would be able to eat to his heart's content in his home? Because if not, then it is incomprehensible why the Russian or perhaps the American embassy is not bombarded with pink hashtags by the spray paint detachment.
But it is also striking that this time Momentum alone resorted to the proven method of self-denigration by graffiti, even though in previous similar actions other cooperative comrades readily joined them (of course not everyone, because one thing cannot be denied from the Gyurcsány couple: they have their minds).
Thus, the current performance could not dazzle even a possible opposition voter who is a fan of Navalny too much, because it is in vain that he now appears with a very firm asphalt plan against the most unpopular prime minister-candidate-candidate Putin, if the most popular prime minister-candidate-candidate in the Coalition (the Parisian ) with his party, from which the Russian skeletons fall one after the other. We remember, for example, the Jobbik from Újpest, who in December, i.e. four months after Navalny's poisoning, traveled to Africa with Russian money on a private plane - and everyone involved has to drink enough Unicum to believe that this was the last embarrassing pro-Russian episode for their allies.
And then there would be the remaining nearly eight million Hungarian voters, for whom it is largely indifferent to the situation of the blogger Navalny, who calls immigrants cockroaches. Among them, Momentum might be able to win over some voters if, instead of the compulsive #FreeAktuálisKülföldiNév kind of performances, it would, for example, deal more intensively with the rights of Hungarians across the border, especially with regard to Transcarpathia. But of course you can continue clowning around with the spray paint instead, it is undoubtedly more spectacular.
Author: Francesca Rivafinoli
Cover image: mindaszo.hu
