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Hungary: Hungary and Mohacs 500

How to Invent a Country by BBC

Jun 23, 202546:26Society & Culture

Misha Glenny and producer Miles Warde travel from Vienna to Budapest and beyond to find out how Hungarian hardman Viktor Orban stays in power. With an election coming up next year, now seemed a good time to find out how...

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Hungary: Hungary and Mohacs 500 is an episode from How to Invent a Country by BBC. Misha Glenny and producer Miles Warde travel from Vienna to Budapest and beyond to find out how Hungarian hardman Viktor Orban stays in power. With an electi...

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