

Just in two months – in December 2017 and January 2018 – the Orban government spent €13.5 million on six different advertising campaigns. The Hungarian government keeps spending huge amounts of taxpayer money on anti-Soros propaganda. Hungarian government spent €8.1 million on its latest ‘Stop Soros’ campaign Without wanting to lessen the ‘genius’ of Finkelstein and Birnbaum, we need to point out that this image of Soros has been around a lot longer than the recent infamous billboards of the Hungarian government, showing Soros in black and white, laughing, with large white letters saying ‘We shall not let Soros laugh in the end’.

This enemy is George Soros, who, according to the conspiracy theorists, is always meddling, manipulating and pushing his agenda against the rule of sovereign governments.

Finkelstein and his colleague George Birnbaum were the masterminds behind creating the ‘perfect enemy’ for authoritarian regimes. It was recently revealed that the late Republican spin-doctor Arthur J. We collected the conspiracy theories from the past couple of decades and put them on a timeline to show you how Soros was blamed by politicians in order to get away with undemocratic decisions. He has been branded as a villain and blamed for various troubles all over the world, including in Hungary where Soros is currently the favorite scapegoat used by the Orban government. Hungarian-born philanthropist and billionaire George Soros has been a protagonist of conspiracy theories for a long time.
