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Politico (30 March 2026)

Jamie DETTMER

From liberal dissident to MAGA darling, the transformation of the prime minister who brought Budapest back into Moscow’s orbit.​

Zsuzsanna Szelényi remembers Viktor Orbán was the one telling the Russians to get out of Hungary.

It was 1989. The Iron Curtain was falling, and Orbán had been tapped to give a speech marking the reinternment of the country’s Imre Nagy — the postwar prime minister who led the 1956 Hungarian revolution against the Soviets and was executed for it.

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