Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the commemoration of the 68th anniversary of the anti-Soviet uprising in 1956 that the revolution had shown that "we must only ever fight for Hungary and Hungarians' freedom".
Pressure from Brussels was growing on Hungary and its government, PM Orbán told the event held at the Millenaris Park in Budapest. "We Hungarians also have to decide whether we want to go to war against Russia."
"Our political opponents think that we should: they say the moral of 1956 was that we should fight for Ukraine; indeed in Ukraine."
The world is closer to a world war than ever in the past 70 years, PM Orbán said. "Everyone pretends not to see that the emperor has no clothes."
He said Europe's leaders, "the Brussels bureaucrats", had led the West into a "hopeless war". "Their heads are addled by the hope of victory and they see this as the West's war against Russia that they have to win, bring the enemy to its knees and squeeze them for everything they've got."
PM Orbán said they were trying to push the entire EU into the war. "They have published the new victory plan which amounts to expanding the war," he added.