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The most important newspaper of the Italian left, La Repubblica, conducted an interview with Márton Gergely, the editor-in-chief of HVG – the author presents himself as a journalist of “one of the few independent media that survived the Orbán purges”, who warns against historical revisionism, because he considers it dangerous, because it a typical feature of authoritarian regimes.
Márton Gergely was asked to explain “Orbanism” to the Italians, to which the editor-in-chief started talking about the constitutional amendments, saying that the prime minister’s aim was to equate the Nazi occupiers with the communists. He added that in the recent period, the government increasingly controls information of public interest.
In recent years, information has increasingly become the expression of a single point of view, without doubt, contradiction or dialectic, and the result is devastating. There is a worrisome stupor, an inability to argue, or even formulate a complex, structured thought
– explained the HVG boss, who also had a say in Italian domestic politics, since he said that this risk also exists in Italy if the thinking of Giorgia Meloni and her allies prevails.
Recently, he also said that Hungary is popular among Germans, because here the inhibition threshold against anti-Semitic, far-right agitation is much lower. Meanwhile, the paper’s most famous journalists are fleeing from HVG one after another, and an internal crisis is raging in the editorial office.
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