Odd that authoritarian regimes really hate him. I’ve read up on him past the conspiracy allegations that have served those authoritarians so well over the years. From Soros holocaust days…
“ After the Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944, pupils in Jewish classes (which included Soros) were sent to council offices to work as messengers for the Jewish Council. The body, also known as the Judenrat, organized the identification and registration of Jews, which ultimately led to labor and death camp deportation.
Soros was asked to send messages to people in several parts of Budapest, but Tivadar, upon reading the messages, told the then-14-year-old that they were, in essence, deportation orders to be given to a list of Jewish lawyers.
Tivadar instructed his son to send the messages but to warn these people that if they followed the instructions to report to the Jewish Council, they would be deported.
Soros said: "I remember one man I went to see who told me, 'You know, I have always been a law-abiding citizen—I haven't done anything wrong—so I have no reason to disobey this order, and I am sure that nothing terrible can happen to me.'
"And when I went back and told my father about it, we had another conversation about rules, what rules you obey, and what rules you break."
After Soros delivered the messages, Tivadar told him to stop working at the council.
Later during the conflict, Tivadar was able to secure identity papers and conceal the backgrounds of the family, and paid for Soros to stay with a man named Baumbach "ostensibly as his godson."
Papers for a young man named Sandor Kiss "who had been born into a Hungarian family in Romania and who had made his way to Hungary after the war stated" were given to Soros.
During that time, Soros accompanied Baumbach as he took inventory of a wealthy Jewish aristocrat, Mor Kornfeld. The book says that Soros was not involved in the confiscation of property: "Baumbach was ordered to go to the Kornfeld estate and inventory the artworks, furnishings, and other property. Rather than leave his 'godson' behind in Budapest for three days, he took the boy with him.
"As Baumbach itemized the material, George walked around the grounds and spent time with Kornfeld's staff. It was his first visit to such a mansion, and the first time he rode a horse. He collaborated with no one and he paid attention to what he understood to be his primary responsibility: making sure that no one doubted that he was Sandor Kiss."“
I’m sure he did enjoy feeling safe being in mansion and getting to ride a horse for the first time while surviving. It’s convenient for you and others to imagine he enjoyed what the nazis did to his people, what they would have done to him if they could have. It doesn’t make sense of course but he gives money to liberals so he is your enemy and that’s all you need.
