Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán wears a "Greater Hungary" scarf on November 21, 2022. (source: Facebook/Rastislav Káčer)
A recent video depicting Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán and Hungarian footballer Balász Dzsudzsák has caught the eye of Slovak Foreign Minister Rastislav Káčer.
"Disgust and humus [reference to something disgusting and dirty in Slovak]," he described the video on November 21.
On his Facebook profile the foreign minister shared a screenshot from the video, in which Orbán wears a "Greater Hungary" scarf during last Sunday's match in Budapest.
Káčer slammed the prime minister for promoting irredentism, an idea that supports the territorial restoration of the Kingdom of Hungary from before 1920. Based on this idea, parts of Slovakia, Ukraine, Austria, Croatia, Romania and Serbia should belong to Hungary.
Romania and Ukraine also noticed Orbán's scarf and condemned the manifestation of irredentism by the Hungarian PM.
"Hungarians in Slovakia are at home."
In response to the video, Káčer said: "We saw in 1939 where such sentiments and plans could lead, and we see it even today in Ukraine in the form of Russian aggression."
He added that Slovakia and Hungary share 1,000 years of common history. "I respect it," the minister said, sharing a story about his great-grandmother, who used to tell him that she came from Slovakia but always felt like a proud Hungarian.
"Hungarians in Slovakia are at home and belong here just like other citizens. Our citizens," Káčer emphasised.
The minister also criticised the pro-government Hungarian media for spreading disinformation narratives about him.
"Manic obsession, even the mythical Soros can envy me," he wrote on Facebook.
Disgust and humus
Káčer, who served as Slovak ambassador to Hungary in the past, used the "disgust and humus" comment in early 2018 for the first time.
He then criticised Slovak PM Robert Fico for questioning Slovak president Andrej Kiska's 2017 meeting with American financier George Soros.
In March 2018, a few days after the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, Fico suggested that Soros might have helped Kiska write his speech.
"Disgust and humus in intolerable doses," Káčer responded to Fico's claim.
Kiska met with Soros, a favourite of various conspiracy theorists, to discuss the Roma issue in Slovakia.
