<nettime> NYT: Hungary's Politics of Hate

[Janos Sugar <sj@c3.hu>]

By István Rév, Sept. 25, 2015

While journalists flocked to cover the chaos at 
Budapest's Keleti Station and thousands of 
refugees marched on foot along the M1 motorway 
toward the Austrian border, Viktor Orban, the 
prime minister of Hungary, was watching the 
Hungary-Romania soccer match from his V.I.P. box 
in the Budapest football stadium.

Before the kickoff, Hungarian and Romanian 
"ultras" shouted Nazi slogans and fought one 
another at the stadium, after having warmed up by 
harassing, insulting and beating up hundreds of 
hopelessly exhausted refugees, who, in their 
panic, had mistaken the noise of fireworks for 
gunshots.

Mr. Orban, who recently built a $20 million 
dollar soccer stadium next door to his summer 
cottage - with seats for 4,000 people in a 
village with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants - had 
cut short a meeting with foreign leaders in 
Prague in order to get back to Budapest in time 
for the match. His behavior recalled the habit of 
Nicolae Ceausescu, the one-time Romanian 
Communist dictator, who never allowed social 
unrest to disturb his favorite pastime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/opinion/hungarys-politics-of-hate.html


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