In the video clip, investigators, fingerprints, crime view photos, a drug lab and bullet casting are seen, then a black wolf’s head is visible in the camera. A man speaks in a deep, menacing voice: “Drugs and weapons smuggling is a specialty of Ukrainian mafia. His cruelty is notorious worldwide. War has brought more weapons to his hands than ever before.”
A tank rolls on screen, a man puts on a Balaklav, then a picture of Ursula von Der Leyen, chairman of the European Union Commission. “Brussels play with fire,” the voice continues. “If Ukraine joins the European Union, the Ukrainian mafia wants to come to Hungary.”
This and similar clips are currently on the media platforms of the government supporters of Hungary. He is part of a campaign launched by Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban recently against Ukraine’s European Union’s reception process.
All Hungarian citizens have to vote by 20 June whether they are joining the European Union for Ukraine. The Hungary government is – not surprisingly – against it.
Orban has been on a pro -Russian and anti -Ukrainian course over the years. But recently, there is a bees when the sharpness of his vocals and his language’s bluntness against Ukraine. His current campaign was the farthest to any of his previous and defamation campaigns and including his controversial national counseling, preventing anti -immigrant sentiments, or his anti -sematic attacks against billionaire George Soros.
Thesis is read promoted which are shocking as racists. The neighboring country has been depicted as a mass of “drug smuggling and organized crime in Eastern Europe”, which is a mass of barbaric people who belong to the mafia or are waiting for floods in Hungary with their “cheap labor” and collecting Hungary pension. If Ukraine was a member of the European Union, a lesson of the campaign claimed, the health system in public safety and Hungary will collapse.
Brussels, Mahil, as the heart of the European Union, is depicted as the wire pullers.
Why is Orban taking a target in Ukraine?
As it all seems, it is easy to explain the background of the campaign. Among all, it boils Hungarian domestics politics.
In Hungary, Orban’s fatigue has spread amidst the majority of the population, ie corruption has been encouraged and the Orban is a disregard for the rule of law on behalf of Himafael, as well as their family and their internal circles.
Opposition leader Peter Magyaar – The first serious challenger for the Prime Minister in the long run – is the most popular politician in elections so far. His honor and freedom party is well ahead of the ORBAN’s Hungarian Civic Alliance (Fidesz) party.
Parliamentary elections are for the next jump. As things are currently standing, the orbon can lose – and later face the investigation proceedings and imprisonment for corruption and misuse of the office.
Against this background, the Prime Minister and his government have been trying to find a way to discredit Magyar for a long time. Recently, Ukraine has presented himself as an opportunity. But when Orban announced the current Ukrainian campaign in March, Magyar reacted-rapidly moved forward.
Thousands of volunteers of the Tijasa party collected opinions on several issues in every Hungarian city and municipality, including Ukrainian membership of the European Union. The result was also surprising for Magyar: Overall, 58%of Hungarian supported Ukraine’s bid to join the block.
When this fact became public knowledge, Orban and his government did not accuse Tisza Party of lying – instead they came with the story for the current campaign.
It gave messages about “war-monging brusals”, which states, funding Ukraine and, in association with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelancesi, to uproot “National, Pro-Hungerian Shanti Sarkar” in Hungary, to the “Bugat” Tissza Party and pass the “Pro-Ekrinians”.
In fact, Magyar and his party are hardly enthusiastic supporters of Ukraine. It is not clear to what extent the Orban’s campaign will be affected beyond the supporters’ very tight-splitting camp.
Orban has dreams of turning the clock back
In addition, the Prime Minister’s anti-rich stance fulfills the indifferent revisionist sentiments of his own and other far-flung voters in Hungary, dreaming of transcarpethia, which is a historical region on the border below middle and Eastern Europe, reflecting part of the Hungarian state. Some parts of this western Ukrainian region belonged to Austria-Hungary before World War I.
In his speeches, the Orban repeatedly calls for “unity of all Hungarians” as well as speaks as Ukraine’s “Land of No Man” or “Area called Ukraine” – intentionally indicates the possible fragmentation of the Ukrainian region.
In terms of foreign policy, Orban’s Ukranian trend can be explained as a declaration of loyalty to Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump. Good relations with Putin play a particularly important role for the Orban, as they have tied Hungary to Russia, both financially and financially.
Hungary bid to protect Russian elite
While Orban and his government depict Ukraine as a corrupt mafia state, they have repeatedly protected Russian elite classes, who have left for organized crime and are included in lists of European Union sanctions for war crimes. For example, the government of Orban demanded elite classes such as Alisher Osmanov or Mikhail Fridman, who was removed from lists of the European Union sanctions.
As far as the alleged mafia state of Ukraine is concerned, for example, experts in Europe, with the economic cooperation organization, agree that the rule of law is more established in Hungary. It says that a fight against corruption is going on, the ongoing time is successfully. This is contrary to Hungary, where there are no visible steps in this direction.
This article was original in German.
