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==Controversy over the statue of György Lukács==

==Controversy over the statue of György Lukács==

In 2017, the [[Budapest]] City Council decided that the statue of György Lukács erected during [[Communist]] regime will be removed from a Budapest Szent István Park in the 13th district and replaced by a statue of [[Crown of Saint Stephen|Saint Stephen]], the founder of the Hungarian state and the canonized first [[Christian]] King of Hungary.  

In 2017, the [[Budapest]] City Council decided that the statue of György Lukács erected during [[Communist]] regime will be removed from a Budapest Szent István Park in the 13th district and replaced by a statue of [[Crown of Saint Stephen|Saint Stephen]], the founder of the Hungarian state and the canonized first [[Christian]] King of Hungary.  

[[Soros]] apologists in [[Canada]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=POST TAGGED WITH: "GEORGE SOROS" |publisher=The Hungarian Free Press |quote=Hungarian Christian Democrat MP declares that Soros is Satan incarnate; George Soros elected Honorary Fellow of the British Academy; George Soros’s savior Elza Brandeisz, member of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church; How I became an agent of George Soros at Budapest Airport; The Hungarian Free Press is published by Presszo Media Inc., a federally incorporated company based in Ottawa, Canada. |url=http://hungarianfreepress.com/tag/george-soros/ |accessdate=5 Dec 2017 }}</ref> who regard Georg Lukacs for a "renowned Marxist philosopher"<ref>{{cite web |title=The Viktatorship strikes at dawn – the removal of the György (Georg) Lukács statue |author=György Lázár |date=31 Mar 2017 |url=http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/03/31/the-viktatorship-strikes-at-dawn-the-removal-of-the-gyorgy-georg-lukacs-statue/ |quote=In a short time the statue of the renowned Marxist philosopher was gone. |accessdate=5 Dec 2017 }}</ref> however defend the Lukacs's Marxist and Communist past and describe the removal as right-wing "anti-Semitic" attack on his [[Jewish]] roots. In their view, ''"You may expect something like removing a statue of a philosopher to happen in [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] in the 1930s but not in Budapest in 2017."'' Thus they believe ''"Hungary is marching down on a dangerous road, somewhat similar to Germany’s in the 1930s,"'' towards ''"a bizarre right-wing nationalist dictatorship with strong anti-Semitic tendencies"''.<ref name="Lazar2017">{{cite web |title=Hungary is removing statue of philosopher György (Georg) Lukács – He was Marxist and Jewish |author=György Lázár |date=16 Feb 2017 |url=http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/02/16/hungary-is-removing-statue-of-philosopher-gyorgy-georg-lukacs-he-was-marxist-and-jewish/ |quote=Hungary under Viktor Orbán is marching down on a dangerous road somewhat similar to Germany’s in the 1930s. It is sliding into a bizarre right-wing nationalist dictatorship with strong anti-Semitic tendencies. The Lukács statue removal is just another step. |accessdate=5 Dec 2017 }}</ref> The removals of statues of Marxist philosophers, under the banner of rejecting totalitarian past when  statues of revolutionary figures like [[Karl Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels]], and [[Vladimir Lenin]] were erected around the country, are however common in [[Ukraine]] and Soros apologists never make the similar statements with respect to them.<ref>{{cite web |title=Friedrich Engels now looks upon the city where he studied the working class. |author=Kelsey Kennedy |publisher=Atlas Obscura |date=7 Aug 2017  |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/friedrich-engels-statue-communism-manchester-ukraine |quote=A STATUE HAS BEEN FRESHLY erected in front of a theater in Manchester, England, but it’s certainly not new. The 12-foot, grim-faced statue of communist writer Friedrich Engels had languished, in pieces, in a Ukrainian field until May, when a British artist loaded it onto a truck and brought it to Manchester in time for an art festival. |accessdate=5 Dec 2017}}</ref> According to their own criterion, Ukraine, with the regime they appear to support, is thus on a dangerous road towards nationalist dictatorship, and they seem to not bother whatsoever.        

[[Soros]] apologists in [[Canada]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=POST TAGGED WITH: "GEORGE SOROS" |publisher=The Hungarian Free Press |quote=Hungarian Christian Democrat MP declares that Soros is Satan incarnate; George Soros elected Honorary Fellow of the British Academy; George Soros’s savior Elza Brandeisz, member of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church; How I became an agent of George Soros at Budapest Airport; The Hungarian Free Press is published by Presszo Media Inc., a federally incorporated company based in Ottawa, Canada. |url=http://hungarianfreepress.com/tag/george-soros/ |accessdate=5 Dec 2017 }}</ref> who regard Georg Lukacs for a "renowned Marxist philosopher"<ref>{{cite web |title=The Viktatorship strikes at dawn – the removal of the György (Georg) Lukács statue |author=György Lázár |date=31 Mar 2017 |url=http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/03/31/the-viktatorship-strikes-at-dawn-the-removal-of-the-gyorgy-georg-lukacs-statue/ |quote=In a short time the statue of the renowned Marxist philosopher was gone. |accessdate=5 Dec 2017 }}</ref> however defend the Lukacs's Marxist and Communist past and describe the removal as right-wing "anti-Semitic" attack on his [[Jewish]] roots. In their view, ''"You may expect something like removing a statue of a philosopher to happen in [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] in the 1930s but not in Budapest in 2017."'' Thus they believe ''"Hungary is marching down on a dangerous road, somewhat similar to Germany’s in the 1930s,"'' towards ''"a bizarre right-wing nationalist dictatorship with strong anti-Semitic tendencies"''.<ref name="Lazar2017">{{cite web |title=Hungary is removing statue of philosopher György (Georg) Lukács – He was Marxist and Jewish |author=György Lázár |date=16 Feb 2017 |url=http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/02/16/hungary-is-removing-statue-of-philosopher-gyorgy-georg-lukacs-he-was-marxist-and-jewish/ |quote=Hungary under Viktor Orbán is marching down on a dangerous road somewhat similar to Germany’s in the 1930s. It is sliding into a bizarre right-wing nationalist dictatorship with strong anti-Semitic tendencies. The Lukács statue removal is just another step. |accessdate=5 Dec 2017 }}</ref> The removals of statues of Marxist philosophers, under the banner of rejecting totalitarian past when  statues of revolutionary figures like [[Karl Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels]], and [[Vladimir Lenin]] were erected around the country, are however common in [[Ukraine]] and Soros apologists never make the similar statements with respect to them.<ref>{{cite web |title=Friedrich Engels now looks upon the city where he studied the working class. |author=Kelsey Kennedy |publisher=Atlas Obscura |date=7 Aug 2017  |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/friedrich-engels-statue-communism-manchester-ukraine |quote=A STATUE HAS BEEN FRESHLY erected in front of a theater in Manchester, England, but it’s certainly not new. The 12-foot, grim-faced statue of communist writer Friedrich Engels had languished, in pieces, in a Ukrainian field until May, when a British artist loaded it onto a truck and brought it to Manchester in time for an art festival. |accessdate=5 Dec 2017}}</ref> According to their own criterion, Ukraine, with the regime they appear to support, is thus on a dangerous road towards nationalist dictatorship, and in this case they seem to not bother whatsoever.

== See also ==

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