
New Delhi: US President Joe Biden has honored billionaire businessman George Soros, who has played a controversial role, with America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. If we understand from the context of India, the prestige that is associated with the ‘Bharat Ratna’ award in our country is the same pride that the Presidential Medal of Freedom has in America.
George Soros, who has immense wealth, controversial investor, dominates many NGOs and creates turmoil in the governments of countries around the world, has had a role in negative shades. George Soros is accused of toppling the governments of many countries and destroying many big banks. His opinion about India is also not good.
In the year 2023, George Soros had said in a defense conference in Munich that India is a democratic country, but PM Narendra Modi is not democratic. Apart from this, Soros had also made many unwanted comments about PM Modi. In the last days of his tenure, President Biden is taking decisions out of the box. He pardoned other prisoners including his son Hunter. Now he has awarded America’s highest honor to 19 people.
While giving this honor, in his opening address Biden said, “For the last time as President, I have the honor of awarding our country’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, to a group of extraordinary, truly extraordinary people who have made a sacred effort to shape the culture and purpose of America.” The President said that you dedicate yourself to the call to serve and inspire others to do the same. When American values are attacked, as they have been, you protect them.
Soros was described as a philanthropist and a supporter of equality
The Biden administration praised George Soros, the founder of the famous NGO named Open Society, in the honor he received. The letter of honour conferred on Soros reads, “The Presidential Medal of Freedom has been awarded to George Soros. Born in Hungary to a Jewish family, George Soros escaped Nazi occupation and opened the way to a life of freedom for himself and countless others around the world.
After receiving education in England, he settled in the US and became an investor and philanthropist who supported the pillars of a free society – rights and justice, equality and parity.” His son Alex Soros was present at the event to accept this honour for 94-year-old George Soros.
I am overwhelmed by the honour – Soros
George Soros, overwhelmed by this honour, said in a statement, “As an immigrant who found freedom and prosperity in America, I am overwhelmed by this honour.” He said, “I accept it on behalf of the many people around the world with whom the Open Society Foundation has shared objectives over the past 40 years.”
Soros is destroying the fabric of civilization – Musk
What President Biden said in honor of George Soros left America’s other billionaire Elon Musk stunned. Elon Musk, a close aide of Donald Trump, who is going to be the new President of America, said that it is ridiculous that Biden is giving the Medal of Freedom to Soros. Elon Musk said that in my opinion George Soros basically hates humanity. Making a sharp comment on Soros, Elon Musk said that he is doing such things that are destroying the fabric of civilization.
The Republican leadership has also attacked Biden for honoring Soros. Nikki Haley said that “After reducing the sentence of the murderers and pardoning his son, giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros is another slap on the face of America. 16 days till the swearing-in is a very long time. What is he capable of doing next?”
What does Soros’s Open Society do, what are the controversies?
George Soros, who earned immense wealth from the stock market, founded the Open Society Foundation in 1979. However, Open Society says that it is the world’s largest private organization that funds independent groups working for rights, equality and justice.
Although Open Society is an NGO and its alleged purpose is to do good for the people, Soros has been accused of doing many illegal activities under the guise of this NGO. These include serious allegations like regime change, funding of protests, instability in the economy. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has also accused Open Society of funding India’s opposition party Congress through different platforms.
Questions raised on Open Society in India
In December last year, BJP had alleged that senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has links with ‘Forum for Democratic Leaders of Asia Pacific’. BJP alleged that anti-India and pro-Pakistan talks take place in this forum. BJP says that this forum is being funded by George Soros’ foundation. However, Congress had strongly denied these allegations of BJP calling them baseless.
Received the title of messenger of chaos
The Open Society Foundation now works in about 120 countries of the world. Governments of many countries have been banning and punishing this organization.
George Soros’ Open Society has claimed on its website that it has spent $18 billion on its mission. In a 2016 report, Russian news agency Sputnik claimed that the Open Society was plotting against President Putin. Sputnik then claimed that the Open Society was using its money and influence to spread chaos around the world so that it could profit from global instability and implement neoliberal ideas internationally. Due to the controversial role of the Open Society, it is also called the ‘Agent of Chaos’.
In America, where George Soros received the highest civilian honor, many serious allegations were leveled against Soros. Soros had criticized the 2003 Iraq War and donated millions of dollars to the Democratic Party of America, i.e. Biden’s party. Since then, he has been attacked a lot by right-wingers.
He was a strong critic of former US President George Bush. He had announced in 2003 that his aim was to remove George W. Bush from power. In an interview to the Washington Post, Soros had said that removing George W. Bush from the presidency is the biggest aim of his life and it is a ‘matter of life and death’ for him. Soros had even said that if someone guarantees to oust him from power, he will give away all his wealth to him.
George Soros’ name also came up in instigating the tumultuous anti-Wall Street protests of 2011. Campaigns are run against George Soros not only in America but also in Turkey and Hungary. Even Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had said that Soros wants to destroy Turkey by dividing it among itself.
The government of Hungary, where Soros was born, is also against him. During the 2018 election campaign, Hungary’s then Prime Minister Viktor Orban had fiercely attacked Soros. Orban won this election. After this, Soros’s organizations came under target and Soros’s organization stopped working in Hungary.
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