Most sane Orbán fans

They are Hungarians, this photo was taken at the this year's Orbán festival in Romania, Bálványos Free Summer University, but it's called Tusványos colloquially, you can read that name on the top of the stage.

Other Hungarian Trump fans from the same gathering:

This one is Zsolt Németh, former Hungarian MP on stage:

Orbán and Harambe:

Are there any marxists who aren't anti-american though?

What do you mean so often. I guess you mean XXth century.

It started with Austria Hungary. After the compromise of 1867 Hungary became a nearly equal part in the Monarchy next to Austria. But it wasn't fully equal, e.g. there were Hungarian National Bank, Ministry of Justice and several institutions you would expect from a sovereign state but a lot of things were still managed from Vienna, e.g. army, navy was common, Foreign Ministry and everything related to diplomacy. Very good article on Wikipedia how the government of the dual monarchy worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Austria-Hungary

Also before the compromise every nations living in Hungary were suppressed equally, and now Hungarians became the ruling class overnight. This obviously angered everyone else (Romanians, Slovaks, Serbs, Croatians, etc.).

Than came WWI and the collapse of the Monarchy. The angered nations wanted revenge. At the Paris peace conference it didn't helped that Hungary didn't have separate foreign relations with anyone, for the aforementioned reasons. Nation states were the new goal from a multi national monarchy, at first they wanted to draw the new borders according to Wilsonian principles. The new borders somewhat followed the boundary of nations, but they also considered economic and defense reasons. The new borders were so against Hungarians, that 30% of all Hungarian were outside the new borders of Hungary. More info on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Trianon

Basically that was the reason Hungary sided with the Nazis in WWII. The only foreign policy of the interwar period was to do anything to get back some territories of the former kingdom, and Hitler was happy to help with that via the Vienna Awards

When Horthy saw that the Nazis will loose the war, he tried to do a separate peace with the Soviets in 1944, but he was overthrown by the Hungarian Nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Cross_Party#Arrow_Cross_rule

From there Hungary was occupied by the Soviets, so it wasn't their choice which side to choose. They tried to choose their side once but it was crushed by tanks.

So as I see this is the first time they (we?) deliberately choose the wrong side. During WWI Hungary wasn't fully independent, WWII was the consequence of the messed up peace treaty at the end of WWI (from Hungarian point of view), and we didn't choose the Soviets, but they choose us.

When they stopped invading Christians and became Christians, fucking cringe.

Mostly Hungarian Hungarians, but yes, it's in Transylvania, Romania, originally this event was a dual, Romanian-Hungarian cultural and political festival, but Orbán took it over in 2010, you can read the history of the festival in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bálványos_Free_Summer_University_and_Student_Camp

Images are from several Hungarian independent and opposition news sites:

• https://24.hu/belfold/2024/07/28/tusvanyos-2024-tusnadfurdo-kepek-galeria/?gallery=1/1/galesz_tusvanyos_mm-3
• https://telex.hu/belfold/2024/07/27/tusvanyos-2024-kepes-osszefoglalo-orban-viktor-fesztival
• I found the top one on reddit, iirc it's from a 444.hu paywalled article

Rewording your question why independent/opposition newspapers go to a place like this? Hungarian government politicians don't give interviews to non-friendly media, they simply ignore them, they only go to friendly tv channels, newspapers. Last time Orbán gave a full interview with proper questions was in 2009.

If a political journalist want to get some info first hand from Fidesz politicians, they have to go places like this, because there are no other option. High ranking Orbán friends partying there, and it's a public event, so they can go there, and randomly stop politicians, they can't run away. Journalists are usually banned from most government gatherings, this is an exception. Most of the photos taken there are of Fidesz politicians and talking heads, as you can see on the articles I linked, but most of you don't know them, so I just selected the funny and and most delusional guys