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10 Years of Hate Feature-length documentary on Viktor Orbán's politics of hate

Smearing political opponents, banning Pride events, turning public opinion against Ukraine - in 2025, Fidesz faces the looming threat of defeat, and Viktor Orbán's camp has launched a counterattack. Many expect it to be the regime's most relentless campaign yet.

There's nothing new about the method. Just as this isn't the first time Orbán's power has been in danger. Stolen public funds, the internet tax, the brokerage scandal, the U.S. entry ban, the war between Orbán and former crony Lajos Simicska - ten years ago, Fidesz's support plummeted within months, and its regime fell into crisis almost immediately after winning the 2014 election. But the arrival of refugees fleeing war offered the perfect opportunity to test a new strategy. And the experiment worked: this was the moment when hate became the basic rule of the Orbán regime.

Partizán's new feature-length documentary shows how Fidesz bounced back from the crisis, how the prime minister consolidated his power, and how deliberate exclusion, demonization and dehumanization became Orbán's primary means of maintaining his power.

How did the Orbán regime come close to collapse unexpectedly in 2015? Why did the seeds of hatred sprout in Hungary, and how did we become the most xenophobic nation in the European Union? Is there any truth to the myth that Hungary protected Europe from terrorism, and how did Hungarian society fall victim to Orbán's lust for power?

Gergely Laki and Bálint Klopfstein-László's 10 Years of Hate traces with a dozen experts how Viktor Orbán cemented his power once the refugee crisis had subsided, and how Hungarian society was prevented from engaging in a democratic discussion about one of the most important issues of the 21st century.