The Swedish prime minister remembered Orban how Russian tanks strangled the freedom of Hungary, and his coffee with Putin

Kristerson noted that Sweden has always been a friend of Hungary – before the government of Orban and during his reign, and will remain him in the future.

He recalled the Hitler Genocide of the Jews, who hit Hungary, Swedish diplomat Raul Wallenberg, who saved Hungarian Jews, as a result of which he was forcibly taken to Moscow, where he disappeared. The Swedish prime minister also recalled how the Soviet Union brutally suppressed the Hungarian struggle for democracy and freedom of 1956, and as Prime Minister Imre Nadia later executed for his efforts to democratize the country.

“When the Russian tanks suppressed Hungary’s struggle for freedom, the Hungarian people begged the UN and all the Western states for help. Almost no one listened to. But one of the countries that showed deep solidarity with you was Sweden. We opened their arms for freedom and dissidents. We allowed you to create an opposition here in the expulsion of Soviet communism, despite our non -amplification. It was not without risk. For us.

He noted that more than 40 thousand people of Hungarian origin live in Sweden and emphasized that democratic states help each other all the years and confront countries trying to suppress others.

“That's why, like in 1944 and 1956, we support the democratic countries that are trying to capture Russian tanks. Then it was about Hungary; today we are talking about Ukraine. And if we do not take measures, tomorrow this may concern another country. That is why we often express concern about events in Hungary in recent years. Hungary has ultimately returned freedom, but we also need to protect freedom. That We question when you go to drink coffee with the leader of the same country that suppressed the struggle of your compatriots for freedom in 1956 and today attacks your neighbor, Ukraine, ”the Swedish prime minister emphasized.

He added that Hungary and the West are not strengthened, “closing the doors to his European friends or attacking each other.”

Also Kristersson turned to the Hungarian prime minister his own “wise words”, which he said in 2007.

“As a kind of new generation of the West, our message to those younger than us, is to adhere to Western Hungary, not to allow Hungary to go astray and love Hungary as a country of the Western type, which means that we believe in the free will of the people and in mutual responsibility to each other, which we take over, which is inseparable parts of Western culture. Oil can go with oil. East, but freedom always comes from the West.