April 15, 2019
By Alex Alexiev
The Zeit piece starts out claiming to be an introduction to the idea that Hungarian democracy is being "systematically destroyed" by "hate, racism and right-wing gangsterism,"which have become the "state's rationale. Curiously, the English translation of the same sentence is rendered with the relatively anodyne "the institutions, the legal system and the social fabric are nothing but a pile of rubble," perhaps indicating that the editors were aware that they were going too far.
There is no evidence of any even-handedness in the body of the long article, full as it is, loaded with barely disguised innuendo, slander, and outright lies about the country. The lie that no independent press is tolerated is exposed by the author's own admission that opposition media freely exist in Hungary...........To Read More....
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