Viktor Orbán blasts the European Union in uprising anniversary speech

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The Hungarian Prime Minister compared EU membership to Soviet occupation. Hours later several thousand demonstrators took to the streets decrying his comments and policies

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00:00 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban blasted the European Union on the anniversary of Hungary`s

00:07 1956 anti-Soviet uprising by comparing Hungary`s membership in the European Union to more than

00:13 four decades of Soviet occupation of his country. Orban accused the EU of seeking to strip Hungary

00:20 of its identity by imposing a model of liberal democracy that he said Hungarians reject.

00:25 We should dance like Moscow danced. If Brussels dances, we dance like we want to. And if we

00:32 don`t want to, we don`t dance.

00:39 Orban considered one of Russian President Vladimir Putin`s only allies in the EU had

00:44 to face the opposition of thousands of citizens on the streets on Monday. A demonstration

00:49 in Budapest criticizes government`s policies and its relationship with Russia despite the

00:54 war in Ukraine.

00:57 [SWOOSH]

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