Hungary: a return to the fascist Horthy dictatorship

24 December 2010,  World Socialist Web Site
By Markus Salzmann and Peter Schwarz

The demolition of press freedom in Hungary⁽¹⁾

Due to come into force on January 1, the law subordinates all public and private media―radio, television, newspapers, magazines and the Internet―to the control of a state “media council”, composed of partisans and confidants of the prime minister, Viktor Orban.(...)Hungarian commentators write about “arbitrary rule” and a return to the fascist Horthy dictatorship of the 1930s.

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Sources:
(1) 24 December 2010, World Socialist Web Site (wsws.org), Markus Salzmann and Peter Schwarz: The demolition of press freedom in Hungary
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