The United States Embassy in Budapest on Monday condemned an article published by a Hungarian official that drew parallels between American-Hungarian billionaire and Holocaust survivor George Soros and Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
The embassy posted on its Twitter account that it "strongly condemns" statements made in an article equating a debate over the European Union's bid to bolster democratic standards within its member countries "with the horrific murder of millions of people during the Holocaust."
On Saturday, Szilard Demeter, a ministerial commissioner for culture and the head of the Petofi Literary Museum in Budapest, wrote an opinion piece in pro-government news site Origo referring to Europe as "George Soros" gas chamber,†and calling Soros "the liberal Fuhrer (whose) liber-aryan army deifies him more than did Hitler's own."