The Hungarian government is democratic and acts according to the will of the people, given orders from Brussels by a Soviet-style leadership, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated in an interview published in the Italian daily Libero on Friday.

The Prime Minister stated that for the European Union

we are black sheep, but this is not a problem for us Hungarians.

We have always been outside the choir, even when we were behind the Iron Curtain during the Soviet Union and were the first to fight for freedom".

Silvio Berlusconi thought similarly about the war in Ukraine

Viktor Orbán is the former Italian Prime Minister, Hajrá, Italy! (FI)'s president, Silvio Berlusconi, made a statement to the daily on the occasion of Wednesday's funeral. He stated that with the interview he wanted to protect his friend from the left who attacked Berlusconi even after his death. He said that since the fall of 1993, he had maintained a friendly relationship with Berlusconi, who was still an entrepreneur at the time, and who approached him because he wanted to enter politics.

Viktor Orbán recalled that thirty years ago, Silvio Berlusconi established a relationship with the political leaders he found most interesting in order to learn from them the tricks of political craft: "I had reservations at the beginning, but he threw me gourmet bait, inviting me to AC Milan's training center in Milanello, promising that he was with Basten and I will have lunch with Capello".

Viktor Orbán recalled that Berlusconi told him that he wanted to learn from those politicians who think outside the choir. The Prime Minister added,

Silvio Berlusconi thought very much like him about the war in Ukraine,

and also about Europe, which overthrew the former government of Berlusconi, who was "universally known as pro-European" with various maneuvers, because Berlusconi did not want to obey the German and Dutch rules.

He added that currently anyone who has a different view on the war in Ukraine than US President Joe Biden is branded as Putinism.

The attitude of the United States

He emphasized that members of the 200,000-strong Hungarian community in Ukraine are called up for military service and sacrifice their lives, while Hungary has accepted one million refugees.

Viktor Orbán believed that there was little hope for peace, since the West,

in fact, I would say that the United States wants to defeat Russia,

and sees Ukraine as a tool for this. And nobody in Europe opens their mouths, except for us, because they don't want to challenge Washington against them". He added:

"however, the silent majority thinks as I do, and I am convinced that the mood will change within a few months, I see the first signs of that".

(MTI)

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