During his first government, between 1998 and 2002, Orban's Fidesz party designated an annual Holocaust memorial day and after returning to power in 2010 banned uniformed groups like the Jobbik-affiliated Hungarian Guard, whose marches in Budapest and countryside villages were meant to intimidate Jews and Hungary's large Roma minority.

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Pontiff from 1939 to 1958, Pope Pius is widely accused of failing to speak out during and after the Holocaust.

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He made the comparison between the plight of the expelled Jews from Spain, and the Jews of Europe during and after the Holocaust.

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