While the Slovaks see Viktor Orbán as their personal bogeyman, attitudes to the east in Romania are somewhat more relaxed, as proved by this campaign poster for center-right Romanian President Traian Băsescu, fn.hu reports. Although obviously aimed at the large Hungarian minority in Transylvania and run without prior-approval by the folks at Fidesz, the fact that a neighboring country’s presidential candidate (who is also the incumbent) would use an image with Orbán is somewhat unexpected. Nonetheless it reveals that Orbán is not considered to be anywhere near the “threat to national security” in Romania as he is in Slovakia, otherwise Băsescu’s campaign would have gone with a different approach. The only question that remains, however, is if this poster will now come as “proof” to any of Hungary’s parties that Orbán is secretly a Romanian agent…
Orbán apparently not a threat to Romanian national security
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Great poster! I’m glad that at least some of our politicians finally see the light. Détente with our neighbors should be one of our highest priorities. Almost as high as an anglo-less energy policy. We shouldn’t let Allies divide us like they have non-stop since they’ve conquered us in WWI. Ever since the Paris Nakba AKA Trianon
But was not the reason why Horthy came to power, that the Allied wanted to crush Kun Bela and his merry Communists to join forces with the Russians and create some pan-Communist area?
Is it not why the Allied supported the Romanians, who secured Hungary for the new puppet Horthy?
And now Jobbik want to celebrate the few Hungarians who joined arms with Kun Bela and fought the Romanians, while Horthy was waiting his time to come into the scene, as planned by the Allied and Romanian?
@Viking: “But was not the reason why Horthy came to power, that the Allied wanted to crush Kun Bela” The Allies wanted to crush Austria-Hungary… “he Allied supported the Romanians, who secured Hungary for the new puppet Horthy?” The French supported the Romanians… The island apes were a lot more ambivalent about the ‘Balkan Neapolitans’ than the frogs which is probably why Romania ended up with only 2/3 of the Hungarian Kingdom instead of all of it. And Horthy wasn’t just another whore either. He was a political genius, respected by everyone who mattered in his day: the king personally chose him to be his aide-de-camp, Hitler carried his briefcase, Stalin personally defended him at Nuremberg, Jew bankers covered his expenses carte blanche until his death in Portugal. He sold his ass to the Allies because they won in WWI and stuck with them because he knew they would win WWII (or at least so he bet). It’s called Realpolitik something Orbán’s been trying to imitate with a lot less success. Horthy also wasn’t a ‘new’ puppet. He was our first Anglo-Kike puppet. Or perhaps the second if you count Széchenyi although Széchenyi never really ‘ruled.’ He was too batshit crazy for that.
@Viking, continued: And Horthy wasn’t a Freemason which is also a huge difference. He was a Protestant who could never have held public office in Austria-Hungary unless he converts to Catholicism like our ‘Jews’ usually did. Horthy of course couldn’t do that. “Jobbik want to celebrate the few Hungarians who joined arms with Kun Bela” Soviet Marxism was a brand new idea back then and we were totally clueless. We only knew that our ruling class failed us, the Allies want to destroy us vs. the ‘new Russia’ that opposed the Paris Nakba (Trianon). And colonel Stromfeld troops — who by the way were joined by all Slovak units that were forced into the ‘Czechoslovak’ army as soon as the northern campaign started — did liberate the Highlands — whereupon Kohn immediately recalled him but that was neither his nor his brave men’s fault, was it?