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Extraction from the letter:

I would like to know one thing from you. How will you explain to your children all these lies, all this arrogance, all this disdain, and the assumed infallibility once their eyes open? I can easily explain to my children why we have a pink Toyota (nobody wanted to buy it, that’s why it was cheap), or that we have only 52m2  of living space (we couldn’t afford more), why I don’t wear suits (because outward appearance is not what is important), why my father doesn’t have a mine (because he learned the trade of carpentry and I wasn’t a politician), and why I wrote this letter (because I refuse to be afraid).

But you, Mr. Orbán, how are you going to explain to your children that you behaved like an arbitrary operetta king, brought stupid laws, lied, ruined people just because they were unwilling to submit to your will? What will you say if they ask “Dad, why did you behave like a Hottentot dictator?” Or you will just slap them around and send them away?

Clemens Prinz

Austrian, folklorist, translator

read whole article Hungarian Spectrum: A letter to Viktor Orbán: An Austrian in Hungary who isn’t afraid.