23 Feb 2021
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán believes it is the “calling” of Europe’s conservative former Soviet satellite states to bring their “uncompromising” tradition of anti-communism into the “common store” of Western values.
Orbán issued the calling to mark the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Visegrád alliance of socially conservative countries in Central Europe — not Eastern Europe, its residents stress, as they are in fact at the continent’s geographical centre between Western Europe and the nations of the former Soviet Union.
The “traditional mission” of the Visegrád countries — namely Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia — was “meaningless for as long as Soviet troops were stationed in our countries”, wrote Orbán in an article for