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Flora Garamvolgyi and Shaun Walker in Budapest

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Alarm grows as orban prepares to take pure nazi rhetoric to us - The Untold Story

Viktor Orbán
Viktor Orbán appeared to backtrack on his comments last week, saying it was ‘a cultural problem’. Photograph: Michael Gruber/Getty Images

A longstanding adviser to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán who resigned last week has warned him that his far-right rhetoric could have tragic consequences.

The Hungarian leader sparked a backlash at home and abroad with a recent speech in which he spoke out against “race mixing”. Soon after, Zsuzsa Hegedüs, a sociologist who has known Orbán for 20 years, handed in her resignation, criticising the prime minister for what she called a “pure Nazi” speech.

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