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Opposition calls on Hungary’s Orban to sack museum head for likening Soros to Hitler

Opposition calls on Hungary’s Orban to sack museum head for likening Soros to Hitler

A leading Hungarian opposition party has joined calls for Prime Minister Viktor Orban to sack the head of a state-funded museum for making extreme anti-Semitic comments likening U.S. financier George Soros to Adolf Hitler.  Nationalist Orban has long vilified Soros, a Hungarian Jew who emigrated after World War Two, as part of a general campaign against immigration. Orban accuses Brussels of trying to force Hungary to accept migrants under the influence of Soros.  In an op-ed published on Saturday, Szilard Demeter, who heads the Petofi Literary Museum and serves as a government cultural commissioner, called Soros "the liberal Fuhrer" and…
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