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POPULAR FRONT

72. Did Hungary Just Become a Dictatorship?

POPULAR FRONT

Jake Hanrahan

News, Politics

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We speak to journalist Joakim Medin about how the leader of Hungary just used the Coronavirus as an excuse to try and turn the country into a dictatorship. 

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but yeah go to popular front dot shop you'll see the raffle there.

0:43.0

This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the very niche and kind of geeky details

0:50.4

of Modern Warfare with me, Jake Hanrahan.

0:53.0

Today we're speaking to journalist Joachim Medin.

0:58.0

He's going to be telling us about how the leader of Hungary, Or Auburn, has managed to basically turn the country into a

1:06.3

dictatorship using the excuse of the coronavirus. Now he already had a state of

1:12.4

emergency in place due to immigration.

1:15.0

He's kind of used this as a step forward with all of that authoritarian stuff.

1:20.0

So yeah, Joachima is going to explain to us how exactly he managed to get to this point and how the EU basically can't really do anything about it.

1:27.5

It's a very bad situation.

1:29.5

If you like what we're doing here at Popular Front, please do consider supporting us on the

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Patreon. It's the only way we keep moving.

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