Very few people outside Hungary speak Hungarian, so practically all of the day-to-day news from that country passes us by. But an interesting scandal has been developing there over the last few months, which arguably merits wider attention.
As you may remember, Hungary held an election earlier this year, which was won decisively by Viktor Orbán’s Fidez Party. Their main opposition was the Everybody’s Hungary Movement, led by Péter Márki-Zay.
Several organisations criticised the elections on the grounds that the incumbent, Viktor Orbán, used elements of the state apparatus to promote his own party. For example, the OSCE described the elections as “well-run” and “competitive”, while noting that they were “marred by the pervasive overlapping of government and ruling coalition’s messaging”.
However, the scandal to which I referred actually concerns the opposition.
In a podcast discussion in August, opposition leader Péter Márki-Zay stated that his movement had recently received money “from America”, which was used to pay some of the campaign bills from the recent elections. The money, he explained, had come through an organisation called Action for Democracy, which was set up in February.
These comments sparked controversy, since Hungarian electoral law prohibits parties from receiving money from abroad. In Hungary, funding for election campaigns is provided to each party through the state budget. Donations from private citizens are also allowed; though above a certain amount, the donor’s name must be made public.
When pressed for comment, Action for Democracy told Hungarian media they did not give any campaign funding, and only supported the opposition movement “as a civic organisation”. Yet critics were not persuaded by this defence. As one noted:
The Hungarian leader of the organization, Dávid Korányi, previously admitted that the Hungarian election inspired the establishment of the organization, and in relation to their operation, he emphasized that “we are trying to strengthen democratic forces in the elections of battleground states, including Hungary.” In other words, in March, the AFD was defined by its executive as an organization specifically focused on elections.
On the other hand, the opposition movement explicitly describes itself as a “movement”, rather than a political party, so the relevant prohibition against foreign funding may not apply. In any case, an investigation was launched owing to the apparent irregularities.
Although that investigation is ongoing, some initial findings have been declassified by the Hungarian parliament. Investigators discovered that the opposition movement received a much larger sum of money than initially believed – 1.8 billion forints (about $4.5 million) – and that some of it arrived before the elections took place.
Although the declassified documents comprise only part of the investigators’ report, they hint at the possibility of U.S. government involvement. Included among them is the following diagram, indicating the various individuals and organisations that are linked to Action for Democracy:
On the right-hand side is the National Endowment for Democracy – an organisation funded by the U.S. government and about which one of its former presidents said, “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA”. Little additional information is included in the declassified documents, aside from the following statement:
In 2014, the management of NED assessed that the Hungarian domestic political situation had become so worrying that an intensive thinking process began about resuming their activities in Hungary. If organization decides to re-appear in Hungary, does not wish to open an office in Hungary, rather, it is looking for Hungarian partners through whom it can implement its goals.
It’s therefore unclear whether the National Endowment for Democracy was involved in funding the opposition movement, or whether any claims to the effect are mere speculation.
Also of interest is Action for Democracy itself. As shown in the diagram above, the organisation’s advisory council includes several prominent liberal interventionists like Anne Applebaum and Francis Fukyama, as well as the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Wesley Clark.
On the “Where do we help” section of its website, Action for Democracy lists five “key battlegrounds”, which all happen to be countries with nationalist/populist governments.
Based on the make-up of its advisory council, and the list of five countries on which it claims to focus, one could be forgiven for thinking Action for Democracy is less concerned with promoting democracy than with opposing national conservatism. Indeed, both “diversity” and “inclusion” are featured among the organisation’s “values and beliefs”.
Whether Action for Democracy has any goals beyond the ideological remains to be seen. According to this Hungarian documentary, which has an obvious pro-Fidez slant, the organisation may represent certain business interests that would benefit from a change of government in Budapest (such as U.S. LNG companies). However, the evidence provided is weak.
This scandal may fizzle out into nothing: an anti-conservative organisation in one country donated money to an anti-conservative organisation in another, and did so through the proper legal channels. On the other hand, it may prove to be America’s latest attempt to remove a government of which it disapproves – and in a NATO member state, no less.
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I’m going down the pub!
One of those infested dens of far-right, literally-Hitler, anti-vax, flat-earther, anti-science conspiracy theorists?
You can’t have too much evidence that you’re being Islamified ( slo-mo conquered, in other words ), so here’s a bit more. Isn’t it interesting that it’s the descendants of migrants that were actually born in the UK that identify as Muslim first, as opposed to their parents who identify as British first? I’d have thought it’d be the other way around because surely if you’re born in Britain you’d expect to have integrated well into the culture and form more of an affinity and bond to the place. Strange;
”The vast majority of British Muslims identify with their religion over their nationality, a report has found.
A study conducted by the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL), based on survey data and interviews with 815 British Muslims, has found that over seven in ten (71 per cent) identify as Muslims first.
In contrast, just 27 per cent of British Muslims said they primarily identified as British, English, or Scottish.
The report found that younger people were far more likely to identify as Muslims first at 85 per cent, compared to older Muslims, a majority of whom (57 per cent) identified as being British first.
“When you ask people in their 20s, that were born here, in this country, they can express themselves very freely. They can freely call themselves ‘Muslims’ rather than ‘British’. But if you speak to their father, they will say they are British. The immigrant generation had to push their Muslim identity down so they could integrate,” one of the survey respondents remarked.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/31/majority-of-uk-muslims-identify-as-muslims-first-over-being-british/
“the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL)”
Never heard of this lot but it’s an odds on certainty that it’s a gang of grifting non-jobbers creaming taxpayers.
I think has happened so quickly and is so extraordinary that many many people are in denial especially if they get their “news” from the BBC.
BBFC
Muslims nationality is always Muslim. Despise their nasty vacuous, mind control, murderous, racist, anti other religions, invader cult. Civil war is closer than ever. Unfortunately
Pause for thought. If I were to be asked if it is more important to me that I am Christian or that I am British, what would I say? Sub specie aeternitatis, I would have to reply: Christian.
“Like other countries, the UK is suffering an enormous post-pandemic economic hangover, with a cost-of-living crisis, high taxation, and soaring energy costs placing an unbearable burden on ordinary citizens.”
Except we are not victims of a post-pandemic hangover, we are suffering under central government inflicted destruction with tories and Kneel’s mob of treasonous bastards entirely to blame.
The country could have been righted post Scamdemic but Johnson, Fishy and Kneel set their stall out to turn us in to a Turd World shithole and I reckon they have pretty much succeeded.
The country is finished.
Muzzies. Africans. Asians. Queers. Tranny’s. 25% of the pop ‘disabled’ apparently. Indians all over the IT sector here (my domain) ensuring that every project is a complete f-up.
Clown world. I have a penis, therefore I am a trans-Muzzie-Ecuadorean.
Open Borders, Net Zero, ‘Climate Change’, Nuclear war with Russia, The Rona fascism, Abortion, Euthanasia, No pride parades, Pharma-ments….the list is endless.
Thanks
If it were finished, its detractors wouldn’t still put such an effort into their misdeeds, spreading defeatism being prominently among them. Reality is such that the Kings and Queen of Shithole Council aka the UN still expect to extract trillions of £ from the UK and they wouldn’t put an effort into this if they weren’t convinced this is possible.
Thanks to Sallust and the DS for highlighting those two excellent articles: one by Julie Sladden with the view from Down Under, and the other by the indefatigable Richard Littlejohn with the classic Robin Hood name.
Causes? Here are two: first, the Communist Cloward-Piven Strategy for destroying the West, and secondly, the Communist Frankfurt School 11-Point Plan for Destroying the West:
1. Create Racism Offences for Whites Only.
2. Induce Trauma through Injustice.
3. Teach Sex and Sodomy to Children.
4. Undermine Parents’ and Teachers’ Authority.
5. Force Mass Immigration to Destroy Ethnic Identity.
6. Create Confusion by Continual Change.
7. Empty the Churches.
8. Encourage Crime to Destabilize Society.
9. Create Dependency on the State by Welfare Benefits.
10. Promote Drugs, Pornography and Alcoholism.
11. Encourage the Breakdown of the Family.
“To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.”
Aleksandr Solzenhytsin (1918-2008)
And the Conservatives (in name only) watched this happen. I can’t think of anything they did to help. This must not be forgotten.
They are not conservatives in any sense.
You recognize the tree from
its fruit.
Or, as Jung put it, if you want to understand people’s motives, look at the results of their actions.
Need to add install Medical Nazism using fake science or Scientism as the casus belli, acclimating the sheeple to poisons, diapers, LDs and murdering old people.
Also add euthansia and abortion. Nothing like murdering the innocent in the womb, or a confused elder to declare your ‘civilisation’ and moral bona fides.
None of that is instigated by the right. It is a full on assault with intent.
“To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses.”
Lavrentiy Beria
The Marxist BLM demand and think the following
1. Dismantle capitalism
2. Climate change is ‘racist
3. Abolish prisons
4. Get rid of borders
5. Unemployment is ‘violence’
6. End stop and search
7. Get rid of the police
8. Government appointment of a Pakistani heritage woman is ‘racist’ – (Previous Gov).
9. Suffragettes reinforce White supremacy
10. Churchill is ‘staunchly racist’
11. Big charities are ‘colonisers’
One of the founders of XR, Stuart Basden, has the following to say, and it’s open ended of course, and I’m sure he would also say “there is so much more to be done”.
“And I’m here to say that XR isn’t about the climate. You see, the climate’s breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system of that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life…
– The delusion of white-supremacy centres whiteness and the experience of white people, constructing and perpetuating the myth that white people and their lives are somehow inherently better and more valuable than people of colour.
-The delusion of patriarchy centres the male experience, and excludes/hinders female assigned people from public life (reducing them to a possession or object for ownership or consumption). Patriarchy teaches dominating and competitive behaviours, and emphasises the idea that the world is a place of scarcity, separation and powerlessness.
– The delusions of Eurocentrism include the notion that Europeans know what is best for the world.
– The delusions of hetero-sexism/heteronormativity propagate the idea that heterosexuality is ‘normal’ and that other expressions of sexuality are deviant.
– The delusions of class hierarchy uphold the theory that the rich elite are better/smarter/nobler than the rest of us, and make therefore better decisions.
There are other delusions. (of course there are, it’s endless) These delusions have become ingrained in all of us, taught to us from a very young age…”
Sphincter rebellion must be punished severely.
“It seems, policies that were initially justified to ‘keep people safe’ had morphed into tools of public control.”
Who would’ve thought, David Icke for one!
“ The decline is not inevitable, but reversing it will require bold, unwavering action.”
I’d say that is incompatible with the increase in the building of new Mosques.
“How the hell did we end up at the mercy of potentially hostile foreign powers?”
Because we are at the mercy of a Globalist Fifth Column!
It seemed to me that Britain had been sold out.
Lock stock and barrel.
The cultural collapse started in the1950s you could even say 1850 and reached its high noon in about 1985. These are the morbid symptoms of what happens long after the collapse. The attendant ghouls that come to feast on the rotting bodies. You are long dead you are just suffering the post mortem agony of watching your corpse being eaten in the most obscene way possible. As the revelation of John said, in those days men will seek death and will not find it.
They are all filthy traitors. Almost every MP in Parliament is a bloody treasonous piece of dung to their peoples wellbeing and safety. Even the arrogant egotistical Farage is a one of them.
God speed the civil war as it’s the only way we are going to save our native people, now. Be ready to fight, men of England.
Have you seen this fantastic short video from the DS News Round-Up?
Brewgalowe on X: “The Great Repeal Act @RupertLowe10, @RobertJenrick, and @DrDStarkeyCBE explain how to restore Great Britain. https://t.co/3gWVq8VOB0” / X
Julie Sladden is wrong to say ‘with Christians now in the minority’. In the ONS bulletin ‘Religion, England and Wales: Census 2021’, it says that 46.2% of the population (27.5 million) are Christian, a large decrease of 13.1% percentage points since the 2011 census. Yes, there has been an increase of 44% in the number of Muslims from 2011 to 2021, but only 6.5% of the population (3.9 million) are Muslim.
So, the largest religion is still Chistianity, with 7 times more Christians than Muslims. Other figures in the bulletin are: ‘no religion’ 37.2%; Hindu 1.7%.