Well into his eighties, George Soros is back on the frontlines of this decade’s ideological struggle. Growing ranks of nationalist politicians are laying siege to the liberal democratic system that emerged victorious from the Cold War — and putting the Hungarian-American billionaire and the “open society†he has spent his fortune to support in their sights.
Soros is a veteran of these battles, having suffered or struggled against authoritarianism his entire life. Born in 1930, he lived under a nationalist pro-Nazi Hungarian regime before escaping to study in London and later make his fortune in America. When he set up what …read more
Source: European Voice
