“Today I look at your actions – wrote the leader of the Orange Revolution – and I ask myself: where did this Viktor go? How did it happen that a man who saw the emergence of a free Hungary is now playing with the forces that want to destroy the freedom of his neighbor? Today, Ukraine is bleeding for the same values that we once discussed. We are not only defending our land, we are defending the peace of your country, as well as the peace of all Europe.”
Yushchenko warns Orban: history is a harsh judge
Yushchenko wrote that Orbán “betrays not only Ukraine, but also the memory of his own nation, which knows what Soviet tanks look like on the streets of Budapest.”
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He concluded the letter with an appeal for the Hungarian leader to return to common values and change his policy towards Europe: “Viktor, stop and remember who you were. History is a harsh judge. It does not forgive those who remained silent or helped evil in times of great trials. It is not too late to return to the light, to true European brotherhood, where honor is valued, not dubious political agreements. I appeal to you to look the truth in the eye. Be the leader whose world once upon a time respected and who knew that freedom is the only way.”
