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It was Jobbik leader Gabor Vona, whose party entered parliament last year for the first time with 12 percent of votes, who announced the channel's launch.

Hungarian extreme-right TV celebrates Hitler's birthday

A Hungarian online news channel backed by the extreme-right parliamentary party Jobbik paid tribute to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on his birthday, online observers reported.
The 30-second report, which originally aired on Wednesday evening on Hitler's 122nd birthday, praised the "German politician" for his economic and moral contribution to his adopted country.
Hitler "rapidly relaunched the destroyed, impoverished Germany, where an unprecedented upturn started in the economic, social, moral and cultural spheres," the news piece gushed.
However, it added that since the defeat of Nazi Germany, "the probably best-known politician in history has been the principal target of a political witch-hunt of the victorious powers," which it referred to as "the Anglo-Saxon and bolshevik allies."
Illustrated with archive footage showing Nazi parades and a smiling Hitler with little children, the report could still be viewed on Thursday on N1 (national one), an online news channel associated with Jobbik part.
It was Jobbik leader Gabor Vona, whose party entered parliament last year for the first time with 12 percent of votes, who announced the channel's launch in December.
The station provides news stories that "are not available, or shown only in a distorted way in mainstream media", according to its mission statement. The N1 report was highlighted by a Hungarian blog on Thursday. National media however did not report on it.

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