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    Hungary protest against rightist theater director

    Associated Press – Wed, Feb 1, 2012

    BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Around 300 people gathered outside Budapest's New Theater on Wednesday to protest its new director, an actor with links to far-right parties.

    Dozens of members of extreme-right groups seeking to disrupt the protest, some wearing face masks and shouting racist slogans, were kept a nearly block away from the theater by police in riot gear. A few were detained by police, state news wire MTI reported.

    Gyorgy Dorner became head of the theater Wednesday after being named in October by Budapest Mayor Istvan Tarlos. Dorner was picked by Tarlos over the theater's previous director, Istvan Marta.

    Dorner initially named far-right playwright and politician Istvan Csurka, also known for his anti-Semitic articles, as the theater's artistic director, but Tarlos blocked the plan.

    Dorner has described himself as a "national radical" and has taken part in rallies of Jobbik, a far-right party which won nearly 17 percent of the votes in the 2010 elections.

    Dorner is also known in Hungary as the voice of Eddie Murphy and Bruce Willis in dubbed films.

    "Fascist ideology should not be allowed to set foot in our life nor in our culture," said Fruzsina Magyar, a Jewish dramaturge who addressed the crowd. "We have to unite against this extremist, murderous ideology. To oppose it is not a political issue, but a moral one."

    The protest ended with the French national anthem La Marseillaise, which is considered a song against tyranny.

    Jewish groups and theater professionals across Europe have also opposed Dorner's appointment, while Tarlos said the new director's performance would be evaluated "at an appropriate time" and asked critics for "patience and restraint."

    A block away, dressed mostly in black, members of the New Hungarian Guard and other far-right groups lined up in formation, sang patriotic songs and said a prayer for Hungary.

    "I totally agree with Dorner's nomination," said Attila Laszlo from the southeastern city of Bekescsaba. "I'm not a big theatergoer, but after this it's possible that I will come" to the New Theater.

     

    8 comments

    • Jeff
      Jeff  •  3 mths ago
      So that means it was OK to blacklist all those left-wing extremists in Hollywood? Fair's fair.
    • The Hun
      The Hun  •  Peoria, Arizona  •  3 mths ago
      The extremist murderous idealogy was brought into actual practice by the Mothers, Fathers, Grandfathers, Grandmothers and other Brethren and Relatives of the Current MSZP/Marxist Party! Those Persons have jailed, tortured murdered tens of thousands of Hungarian Men, Women and children from 1945 to 1989 in order to keep the People of Hungary in the Soviet Orbit! The THRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!
      • Ray
        Ray 3 mths ago
        You are only counting from 1945?
        Feel free to go AT LEAST as far as 1919, the bolshevik "Tanacskoztarsasag", with the murderous "Lenin Boys" ...
    • Helorider
      Helorider  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Terminology is important. In politics, leftist and communists call anyone not one of them they dislike, fascists. BTW, Nazis were NOT Fascists, they were socialists. That is why their flag was red, the socialist color. In Hungary's history, their people were tortured and murdered by the same ilk that are complaining about the politics of a theater director. Chutzpah.
      • Amathiusm
        Amathiusm 3 mths ago
        The Nazi's were fervent Nationalists , fool. Right wing ideology means , far enough right , nazi ideology. Just because Americans are too stupid to understand that the word LIBERAL is not a bad word and is infact responsible for the birth of their country - does not equate Liberal with communist etc. or any other garbage you would seek to attach - in facts anyway. As far as your trashy American politics goes , why not.
      • Helorider
        Helorider 3 mths ago
        Hey hidden profile (can't blame you). The term Nationalist has nothing to do with anything. You must have seen or read part of something to account for your scrambled thinking. Look up Fascism. You don't like the term Liberal, OK, leftists then. These are in fact 'statists' who want the government to take over most of the decision making once left to individuals and redistribute wealth in every way possible. The lazy POS who didn't take advantage of available opportunities who now hangs out with the Occupy crowd whining about corporate greed wants to get what hard workers get? NO! Period.
    • Fawbots
      Fawbots  •  Budapest, Hungary  •  3 mths ago
      I was wondering what all the fuss was about. I went out to get my haircut--it is too cold to be out demonstrating against or for anything in this weather.
      • Tony B
        Tony B 3 mths ago
        Tempest in the teapot.
      • pdp44734590j
        pdp44734590j 3 mths ago
        Get rid of the Hungarian Left! They are bandits.
    • Dirk Durka
      Dirk Durka  •  3 mths ago
      Hungary is a great country with a complex history. They suffered under the Ottoman Empire and the Communist regime. The history of the Magyars is a matter of pride for many. They lived well during the Austro-Hungarian Empire and better than some during the Hapsburg era. In any event, the Hungarians have faced tough odds FOREVER! They will make the right choices for their future.
      • elbarto
        elbarto 3 mths ago
        A great country indeed, but I'm glad the Slovaks are no longer under the heel of the Magyar boot.
    • Jack
      Jack  •  3 mths ago
      The radical left, the radical right--BOTH are scary.
    • Objective
      Objective  •  3 mths ago
      The facism of the far right is something to be carefully watched in this nation as well, and a barricade against it kept firmly in place.The right wing is the breeding ground for this disease that comes disguised as patriotism and Christianity.
      • Tony B
        Tony B 3 mths ago
        Yes be careful. False pariotism is forecasting extremism.
      • pdp44734590j
        pdp44734590j 3 mths ago
        This is the Hungarian Leftist, Old communist propaganda. They murdered people in 1956!
    • pdp44734590j
      pdp44734590j  •  3 mths ago
      Hungary's communists must go, not the theater director! Hungarian people don't even respect the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the murder of innocent people by the Leftists in collaboration with Russians. STOP the Hungarian Leftists! NOW!
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