The video posted on social media last week was a sinister echo from the past, from those days when Russia’s spooks used surveillance and sinister tricks to ensure its satellite states in eastern Europe stayed loyal to the Kremlin.

A slim man, clad in a crisp white shirt and sharp blue suit, spoke to the camera as he accused his own country of targeting him in a secretive sex and drugs sting. 

He denied using drugs, admitted to consensual sex with a former girlfriend, and warned that his nation’s security services were being used in a bid to destroy his campaign to oust their unpopular prime minister.

This dramatic moment showed the nastiness of the most important election taking place this year in Europe. Peter Magyar, the Hungarian opposition leader who is substantially ahead of long-term prime minister Viktor Orban in the polls, accused rivals of deploying shameful KGB-style tactics just days before the start of his election campaign this week.

He was responding to a widely-circulated image of a bedroom along with the message “coming soon” – suggesting a video would soon follow – that was posted on a website purporting to belong to an ally.

“I am a 45-year-old man and I have a regular sex life with an adult partner,” said Magyar calmly.

Even this was a loaded comment by Magyar since he launched his party Tisza after a government-linked child abuse scandal that forced two top government officials – the then president and Magyar’s former wife, who was serving as justice minister – to quit in 2024.

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