Just four days after Orbán startled European leaders by declaring countries were “no longer nations” after different races blend, one of the prime minister’s own longtime advisers, sociologist Zsuzsa Hegedüs, quit on Tuesday.
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And she didn’t do so quietly.
Hegedüs’s resignation letter — filled with ire — was instantly leaked, turning it into a public excoriation of Orbán’s speech.
“Worthy of Goebbels,” she said in the letter, which was seen by Hungarian magazine HVG.
A “pure Nazi text,” she added.
“That you are able to deliver an openly racist speech would not occur to me even in a nightmare,” marveled Hegedüs, who has been working for Orbán for over a decade.
And it didn’t stop there.
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