How Viktor Orbán became Putin’s best friend in the EU

(Jamie Dettmer – Politico) 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. Szelényi, who was there as part of the reburial honor guard, recalled how the man who would become her country’s longest-serving prime minister took the stage to call for the withdrawal of the Soviet army. – How Viktor Orbán became Putin’s best friend in the EU – POLITICO