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The Butcher And The Poet

How to Invent a Country by BBC

Jul 2, 202541:47Society & Culture

Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head to a rally in Budapest where Viktor Orban compares the EU to the Habsburgs, forgetting it was tsarist Russia that crushed the revolution of 1848

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