Insiders say Fidesz’s obsession with ending all trace of Hungary’s communist past helps explain nearly every controversial policy of the current government.
Close adviser Maria Schmidt said Orban believed Hungary made a mistake in trying to follow a Western model it could not afford — capitalism combined with government welfare spending — which he considered a kind of hidden socialism.
“A duality has prevailed in this region for 20 years – the coexistence of a market economy and socialism,” said Schmidt, a historian who directs the Terror House, a museum on totalitarian crimes of the 20th century,
“Orban’s thinking is that this duality is not sustainable and we must switch to a new system.”
Hungary’s Orbán seeks to wipe out communist past
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About time, how about Austro-libertarianism.
Real laissez faire capitalism, a small libertarian government and a populace with Christian morality. Very similar values built up the US after the revolution.
What a shocking concept!
“Orban’s thinking is that this duality is not sustainable and we must switch to a new system\
I thought he already had? Totalitarianism!