The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, attacked this Monday against the "dictates" of the European Union (EU), describing them as a pale imitation of the Soviet authority, and said he saw a light of hope in the continent's elections in 2024. "Sometimes history repeats itself," said the Hungarian leader before a thousand of his followers gathered in Veszprem on the day of commemoration of the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union in 1956. "The Soviet repression was followed by sermons from Brussels (EU headquarters), but fortunately the tragedy of yesteryear has become a farce," he said. He added that "Moscow was a tragedy and Brussels is nothing more than a bad contemporary parody." "We had to dance to the sound of Moscow's whistles. Brussels also blows them, but we only dance if we want to," Orban added, quoted by the AFP news agency.