The post of the demagogue Ákos Hadházy taking a selfie at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin blew the fuse at Hont.
The incriminated post read:
"Memorial to Murdered European Jews in Berlin. It led to this when an unscrupulous politician incited and incited an entire nation with his propaganda machine in the name of protecting Christianity and fighting against some kind of background power conspiracy and race mixing. And the fact that the masses who saw what was going on in the country did not stop him in time led to this. When they still could."
András Hont replied to this:
"Orbán is not Hitler, not Rákosi, and not even Kádár. The first was a mass murderer, the second was also responsible for hundreds of deaths, but the number of his victims imprisoned, harassed and displaced can be measured in the hundreds of thousands, while the last person also began his reign, which many refer to nostalgically, with hangings. There is no state propagandist who would be of more use to government forces than those who use these silly and (even to the victims) insulting parallels. Those who have poisoned the Hungarian public discourse to such an extent that the above sentences seem to be a defense of Orbán, or even praise, are very serious.
The use of these obscure historical analogies requires rampant ignorance.
No, Hitler did not defend Christianity, he wanted to replace it with Old Germanic mythology and Aryan mysticism, he planned to kidnap the Pope, he ordered the practical liquidation of the Polish Catholic Church, he even emphasized the pre-Christian pagan nature of Christmas, and the weak German resistance consisted mostly of Catholic priests and was recruited from Protestant ministers. No, he wasn't fighting against "some kind of background power conspiracy", but specifically against the supposed influence of the Jews, and he wasn't particularly excited about the mixing of races, if it wasn't about the Nordic race, which he considered superior.
"It wasn't stopped in time" is true, but the parallel is again meaningless. 13 years after Hitler came to power, he was already dead, and the alarm bells were not raised to stop him.
During the 12 years of his rule, his opponents were in concentration camps or unmarked graves, and not for fat salaries in parliament or municipalities.
Orbán can be hated for many things, criticized for even more, but Hadházy and the others will be pleased not to use my murdered ancestors for this self-forgetting activity."
Featured image: Ákos Hadházy's Facebook page
