Monday was the 61st anniversary of the popular uprising against Communist rule in Hungary. The speech below was delivered for the occasion by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the square next to the Museum of Terror in Budapest.
In his speech Mr. Orbán mentions the thirty-foot bronze statue of Stalin that was demolished during the Revolution of 1956. The dictator’s boots were all that remained, and the citizens of Budapest scaled the plinth beneath the truncated statue to place Hungarian flags in them. The photo at the top of this post shows the moment just before those flags were raised.
The Hungarian Revolution was an inspiration to the Free World in 1956, and it remains an inspiration today. For ten days the Hungarian nation regained its independence as a sovereign state. There was no hope of success in the long term against the Soviet behemoth, but for that proud moment Hungarians knew that they, as a people, had not surrendered their identity nor abandoned their dignity.
Then the Soviet tanks arrived in Budapest. Block by block, house by house, the Revolution was crushed. A compliant puppet government was once again installed, and Hungary regained its status as a Soviet vassal, which it kept for thirty-three more years.
Two years after the Revolution, Imre Nagy, the leader of the failed rebellion, was executed. His body was buried face down, with hands and feet bound by barbed wire, in the public cemetery of Budapest.
I recommend the Wikipedia entry on the Revolution of 1956, which provides a fairly detailed account of events. An excerpt:
At about the same time, a large crowd gathered at the Radio Budapest building, which was heavily guarded by the ÁVH [state security police]. The flash point was reached as a delegation attempting to broadcast their demands was detained and the crowd grew increasingly unruly as rumours spread that the protesters had been shot. Tear gas was thrown from the upper windows and the ÁVH opened fire on the crowd, killing many. The ÁVH tried to re-supply itself by hiding arms inside an ambulance, but the crowd detected the ruse and intercepted it. Hungarian soldiers sent to relieve the ÁVH hesitated and then, tearing the red stars from their caps, sided with the crowd. Provoked by the ÁVH attack, protesters reacted violently. Police cars were set ablaze, guns were seized from military depots and distributed to the masses and symbols of the Communist regime were vandalised.
On the European political stage, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is a giant among pygmies. Sixty-one years after the uprising, he connects the events of those days with Hungary’s long historical experience, with its subjugation under Communism, and with the current attempts to subjugate it under globalist rule from Brussels.
The sign in front of the prime minister’s microphone reads: “The Day of Freedom”
Many thanks to CrossWare for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript (no times):
With respect… I would like to welcome — with respect — the Hungarian heroes of the 1956 revolution and fight for independence.
I welcome you all, from all around the world: from Toronto via Paris to Dunaszerdahely [Dunajská Streda — Slovakia] and from Munkacs [Mukachevo — Ukraine] via Szabadka [Subotica — Serbia] to Szeklerland. I welcome those who celebrate in the capital of the nation, and those, too, who are in front of their [TV] screens. They are home with us.
I would like to welcome those who experience that we Hungarians, the Folk of Freedom, are a special nation of freedom. There might be rain. There might be a shrill wind, or there might be teargas and mounted police attacks. We come together, because no matter where we live in the world, we want to remember today. Worthy and just!…We want to remember that wonderful October day When a nation said: “Enough”, and shook the supporting columns of the Communist system. We want to remember the moment that will live forever in the memory of the free nations of the world.
Respected ladies and gentlemen, respected celebrants: The homeland is a natural and mental reality. But Soviet rule tossed us into a space without history. It wanted to destroy our past, and our culture, too. Against the recurrence of physical and mental terror, the strongest weapon is national historical memory. That is why we came to precisely this place. The building next to us was the headquarters of the Arrow Cross Party [fascist party in WW2], then it was the center of terror for the Communist single-party state. First the national, then the international socialists nestled themselves in there. Here they kept in captivity and tortured those they were most afraid of, and those whom they most hated. In 2002 with a blade-wall we excised it from space and time, raised it up to be a memorial and placed a museum here, in the heart of Budapest, Hungary, and Europe. It should remind the world that the Hungarians’ thirst for freedom cannot be strangled. That’s why we placed it here, to warn ourselves that if freedom is lost, if national independence is lost, then we will be lost, too. It cautions us that freedom never comes free for us. We always fight for it.
There shall come the Labanc [Austrian imperial soldier], Muszka [Muscovite], the German or the Soviet wearing uniforms with the arrow-cross or Communist outfits, for our own freedom we always have to defend ourselves. Others never will. We are accustomed to the fact that in our part of the world, liberation is just the beginning of a new occupation. It’s fortunate that the nation — in the necessary moment, the fateful hours of history — has daughters and sons who are ready to defend their homeland. Because in this corner of Europe those times frequently come when it is not enough to talk nicely about one’s love for his homeland, but when one must actually have to defend his country.
Today we remember those who one day woke up to realize they had everything taken from them not just worth dying for, but worth living for, too. They didn’t take from them only what was, but what might have been, too. The fear hit them in their hearts that if things continue this way, they could lose Hungary forever. And then, on the edge of the cliff, the thousand-year-old homeland, on the doorstep of the crumbling of the Hungarian world, they rebelled. In 1956 such a wonderful country emerged from the twilight of suppression, one that we always wished for. It flashed up in front of us that it is possible, that such a Hungary could exist, where our better selves provide the girders.
The revolution was a national one. From the workers in the factories we learned that they were no “international proletariat”, but Hungarian workers, and that moment we will always remember, for as long as a single Hungarian remains alive in the world…
Let’s take a detour! …Let’s take a detour, and let’s admit that we not only remember, but do not forget, either. We have not forgotten those who stood against us. It is customary to accuse us of being unable to forgive. But in reality they are the ones who are incapable of forgiving us for almost half a century, what they committed against us.
Respected commemorators! Westerners, even though they admired the Hungarian revolution, did not understand it. They did not understand the force that worked in us. They did not understand why we were fighting against such numerical superiority, which by any human calculation could not be defeated. They did not understand that we were fighting because we hold on to our culture till the end, to our way of life, and we do not want to be dissolved in anybody’s melting pot. We want them to respect who and what we are. For a thousand years we protected the borders of Europe and fought for our national independence. We are a brave and warrior nation, one that knows it is not respected, but despised. That’s why they do not understand us in Brussels, because they did not understand us, even then.
…Respected celebrating crowd! Respected celebrating crowd! We are not only standing beside the House of Terror museum, but on one of the world’s most beautiful boulevards. Here towering ahead of us in sheer reality, that beauty and greatness of which our nation is capable. Here are lined up the palaces of Andrássy street; that way the Heroes’ Square; the other way the Opera House and the Chain Bridge. A heritage, an enthralling heritage, to which all of us are obliged. Our old squares are not theatrical scenery, for us to wonder at with amazement. These are gauges and measuring devices. Signals and warnings. A nation that reached such peaks as we have — not just once — can’t be content with less. We can’t be content with less today, either!…There were periods when we were in control of an empire. There were occasions — more than once — when, after the destruction by our enemies, we had to rebuild and reorganize our devastated homeland. We never hid from the responsibility, nor from work or from the good Lord’s will. We undertook what needed to be done, There were those who stood in the battlefields, and those who, with their intellectual power, assured our place in the rank of nations.
Today we celebrate that day when many millions of Hungarians again realized: although we live different lives, we all belong to the same nation. Today we remember that moment, when the cardinal and the turner, the philosophers and the brats of Pest, when the Archduke and the Interior Minister — who was a Soviet partisan — wanted the very same thing. Today we remember that touch which plowed through the walls separating the torn-apart fragments of the country and permeated the student assemblies in Erdely [Transylvania] or the prison cells of Szamosujvar. Peter Mansfeld, Maria Wittner, Laszlo Dozsa, Janos Szabo, Gergely Pongratz, Imre Nagy, Jozsef Mindszenty We look at them, but we see a nation.
Respected ladies and gentlemen… …The remembrance helps the truth of our present life to stare in the face, too. The truth is that thirty years after Communism there exists once again a global force that wants to repaint the European nations in a single color, And wants to knead them into a consistent mass. Like every other cultured nation, we Hungarians always had our own notions about Hungary. A vision about freedom, about civilization. A vision about how to be human, And live as human beings. We always rebuilt our country this way, when we got rid of our current oppressors. So it was, too, at the time when we toppled Communism and sent the Soviets home. The truth is that now, after three decades, once again everything we think about Hungary and the order of the Hungarian life is endangered. The truth is, after achieving freedom in 1990, once again we have arrived at a turning point in our history.
We wanted to believe that the old problems could no longer return. We wanted to believe that the crazed dreams of the Communists — that from us Hungarians they would fabricate Homo Sovieticus — could never happen again. And now we stand here and look in stunned amazement at the forces of globalism straining against our doors, the way they work to shape Hungarians into Homo Brusselicus.
We wanted to believe… …We wanted to believe that we would never again have to deal with political, economic and mental forces that want to cut our national roots. We also wanted to believe that in Europe terror and violence cannot raise its head. This is not what has happened. Europe was blinded by its old successes, lost its significance on the world stage, in such a way that it did not even realize it. It dreamed about its role as a world leader. Today not even its neighbors care much about it, and even in its own house it is barely able to keep order. But instead of admitting this, it initiates revenge campaigns against those who warn about intellectual suicide and the dangers of nihilism. They labeled as diehards those who believed Europe needs solid, defendable external borders. They stigmatized as racists those who believed that immigration presents a danger to our culture. They stigmatized as exclusionists those who raised their voice in defense of Christianity. They stigmatized as homophobic those who stood in defense of the family. They called Nazis those who believed Europe is an alliance of nations. And finally they labeled as screwballs those who deviated from the economic path of Brussels, which leads to a swamp. Only a few of us survived these revenge campaigns.
This arrogance… This arrogance led Europe into that economic, political and intellectual chaos which now every country wants to escape. That is the truth that we have to face today. Detour! It looks like there [Brussels] they do not know our king Saint Stephen’s admonitions, and I quote: “Nothing can lift you up but humility; nothing can throw you down but arrogance and hatred.”
Respected ladies and gentlemen… …The European people — we among them — became fed up with the idea that globalization had to be accepted as an irresistible force. We became fed up that they hammer into our heads day and night that we cannot do anything; we must tolerate it, adapt to it, and that we must bow down. The reason we wanted and still want the European Union is to have the assurance and means with which the European nations can defend their shared thoughts of their civilization. But in reality we made ourselves more vulnerable than before. In every crisis situation, they scream “Europe”, like it’s some kind of magic word, which can by itself avert our fate. That is why Europe ran into a dead end.
We Hungarians know why. This time of the year, on October 23, we see this most clearly. In the 20th century military empires caused the problems. Now on the lee of the wave of globalization, financial empires have arisen. They do not have borders, but they have world media, and they have tens of thousands of bought people. They do not have a solid structure, but they have an extended network. They are fast, strong and brutal. This empire of financial speculators successfully captured Brussels, and many member states, too. As long as it fails to regain its sovereignty, the steering wheel of Europe cannot be turned back to the correct direction. This empire brought upon us the modern-day mass migration, the millions of migrants and the new immigration invasion. They prepared the plan that wants to convert Europe into a mixed-race continent. Now we are the only ones resisting. We ended up in a situation where Central Europe is the last migrant-free region. That is why the fight about the future of Europe will be focused here.
Respected ladies and gentlemen, we Hungarians were the ones who broke the ice of silence. We are the ones who named the forces that want to cut Europe’s national roots. We brought to light the announcement, first of national, then later international collaboration against them. We could not do it differently. The twilight and covert war is not our world, one that we could never win. In the dark, our enemies have overwhelming odds. Only in a fair open fight, with clear and open speech, can we have any chance to defend our borders, to stop the migration and to protect our national identity. If we want a Hungarian Hungary and a European Europe, then we must openly talk about it… And it is not enough to talk; we must fight, just as we have always done, when our freedom and our independence are at stake.
Respected celebrants! Today every election in Europe is historic. There was the Austrian, the German, the Czech, and next year will be the Italian and the Hungarian ones, too. Now it will be decided whether the citizens of Europe will take back control of their own nations. Take it back from the European bureaucrats in collusion with the financial elite. On every stage: in politics, in the economy, in intellectual life, and first of all in the culture, we must initiate deep changes. Now it will be decided whether we successfully can bring back the old — before multiculturalism — our great Europe. We want a safe, reasonable, civil, Christian and free Europe…
Still… Still many people think that it is impossible. But let us think about 1956. How many would have thought on the morning of October 23rd, on their way to work on the streetcar, that by evening in place of the Stalin sculpture only a couple of boots would remain? How many would have believed that if necessary even adolescents could take up arms? [Istvan] Orkeny wrote about a civilian home in Pest, where a little boy knocked on the door: “Lady, please, if I clean my shoes real good, may I shoot out of the window?” And in 1988, how many believed that Communism, in just one year, would come down, and we would count it out, that we would force a step-down, and the Soviet troops would be ordered out of the country?
And who would have believed before 2010 …That soon we would have a new Constitution on a nationalist basis, with a Christian culture and capable of protecting our families and values. They said: impossible! They said… they said it was impossible to send the IMF home. They said it was impossible to make the banks accountable, and impossible to tax the multis [multinational corporations]. They said it was impossible to reduce the cost of living. They said it was impossible to give work to everyone, that it was impossible to resist the migration, and that it was impossible to stop the migrant invasion at our borders with a fence.
I did not mention it to you once… I could not say it to you once that we will be successful. In life there are no guarantees for such things. But one thing is certain: if we do not try, we will surely fail. Some risks always exist… in 1956 we saved the honor of our country. In 1990 we took back our freedom. In 2010 we set out on the path of national unification. For us, nobody can say: impossible. We know the migration can be stopped, globalization can be thwarted, Brussels can be curbed, a financial speculator’s plan can be scuttled, the crazy idea of United European States can be forced into a straitjacket. …All that is needed… All that is needed here in Central Europe is for Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians and Hungarians to join forces; we only need to discover the power in our hands, in our minds, in our hearts, and behave as befits proud nations.
Respected celebrants! The stakes are high… The stakes are high. We cannot take anything lightly We can’t be lulled into inaction and convenience in our present strength. We shall never underestimate the power of the dark side! We have good odds for the next election, but have not yet deserved, not yet fought for our victory. We will need everybody, so in the upcoming months we will prepare, we will restart in March, and then in April we will win again. Hurrah Hungary, hurrah Hungarians!
Video transcript (with times):
00:04 | With respect… | |
00:08 | I would like to welcome — with respect — the | |
00:12 | Hungarian heroes of the 1956 revolution and fight | |
00:16 | for independence. I welcome you all, | |
00:20 | from all around the world: from Toronto via Paris to | |
00:24 | Dunaszerdahely [Dunajská Streda — Slovakia] and from Munkacs [Mukachevo — Ukraine] | |
00:28 | via Szabadka [Subotica — Serbia] to Szeklerland. I welcome those who | |
00:34 | celebrate in the capital of the nation, | |
00:38 | and those, too, who are in front of their [TV] screens. | |
00:42 | They are home with us. I would like to welcome | |
00:46 | those who experience | |
00:50 | that we Hungarians, the Folk of Freedom, | |
00:54 | are a special nation of freedom. | |
00:58 | There might be rain. There might be a shrill wind, or | |
01:02 | there might be teargas and mounted police attacks. | |
01:06 | We come together, because no matter where we live in the world, | |
01:10 | we want to remember today. | |
01:14 | Worthy and just! | |
01:18 | …We want to remember | |
01:22 | that wonderful October day | |
01:26 | When a nation said: “Enough”, and | |
01:30 | shook the supporting columns of the Communist system. | |
01:34 | We want to remember the moment | |
01:38 | that will live forever in the memory | |
01:42 | of the free nations of the world. | |
01:46 | Respected ladies and gentlemen, respected celebrants: | |
01:50 | The homeland is a natural and mental reality. | |
01:54 | But Soviet rule tossed us | |
01:58 | into a space without history. | |
02:02 | It wanted to destroy our past, | |
02:06 | and our culture, too. Against the | |
02:10 | recurrence of physical and mental terror, | |
02:14 | the strongest weapon is national historical memory. | |
02:18 | That is why we came to precisely this place. The building | |
02:22 | next to us was the headquarters of the Arrow Cross Party [fascist party in WW2], | |
02:26 | then it was the center of terror for the Communist single-party state. | |
02:30 | First the national, then the international socialists nestled | |
02:34 | themselves in there. | |
02:38 | Here they kept in captivity and tortured those | |
02:42 | they were most afraid of, and | |
02:46 | those whom they most hated. | |
02:50 | In 2002 with a blade-wall we excised it from | |
02:54 | space and time, raised it up | |
02:58 | to be a memorial and placed a museum | |
03:02 | here, in the heart of Budapest, Hungary, | |
03:06 | and Europe. It should remind | |
03:10 | the world that the Hungarians’ thirst for freedom | |
03:14 | cannot be strangled. That’s why we placed | |
03:18 | it here, to warn ourselves | |
03:22 | that if freedom is lost, if national | |
03:26 | independence is lost, then we will be lost, too. | |
03:30 | It cautions us that | |
03:34 | freedom never comes free for us. | |
03:38 | We always fight for it. There shall come | |
03:42 | the Labanc [Austrian imperial soldier], Muszka [Muscovite], the German or the Soviet | |
03:46 | wearing uniforms with the arrow-cross or Communist | |
03:50 | outfits, for our own freedom we always | |
03:54 | have to defend ourselves. Others never will. | |
03:58 | We are accustomed to the fact that in our part of the world, | |
04:02 | liberation is just the beginning of | |
04:06 | a new occupation. It’s fortunate that the nation | |
04:10 | — in the necessary moment, the fateful hours of history — | |
04:14 | has daughters and sons who are | |
04:18 | ready to defend their homeland. | |
04:22 | Because in this corner of Europe those times | |
04:26 | frequently come when it is not enough to talk nicely about one’s love for his homeland, | |
04:30 | but when one must actually have to defend his country. | |
04:34 | Today we remember those | |
04:38 | who one day woke up | |
04:42 | to realize they had everything taken from them | |
04:46 | not just worth dying for, but worth living for, too. | |
04:50 | They didn’t take from them only what was, | |
04:54 | but what might have been, too. | |
04:58 | The fear hit them in their hearts | |
05:02 | that if things continue this way, | |
05:06 | they could lose Hungary forever. And then, | |
05:10 | on the edge of the cliff, the thousand-year-old homeland, | |
05:14 | on the doorstep of the crumbling of the Hungarian world, | |
05:18 | they rebelled. | |
05:22 | In 1956 such a wonderful country emerged | |
05:26 | from the twilight of suppression, | |
05:30 | one that we always wished for. | |
05:34 | It flashed up in front of us that it is possible, that such a Hungary could exist, | |
05:38 | where our better selves provide the girders. | |
05:42 | The revolution was a national one. | |
05:46 | From the workers in the factories we learned | |
05:50 | that they were no “international proletariat”, | |
05:54 | but Hungarian workers, and that moment | |
05:58 | we will always remember, for as long as a single Hungarian | |
06:02 | remains alive in the world… Let’s take a detour! | |
06:10 | …Let’s take a detour, | |
06:14 | and let’s admit that we not only remember, | |
06:18 | but do not forget, either. We have not forgotten those | |
06:22 | who stood against us. | |
06:26 | It is customary to accuse us of being unable to forgive. | |
06:30 | But in reality they are the ones who are incapable | |
06:34 | of forgiving us for almost half a century, what | |
06:38 | they committed against us. Respected commemorators! | |
06:42 | Westerners, even though | |
06:46 | they admired the Hungarian revolution, did not understand it. | |
06:50 | They did not understand the force that | |
06:54 | worked in us. They did not understand | |
06:58 | why we were fighting against such numerical superiority, | |
07:02 | which by any human calculation could not be defeated. | |
07:06 | They did not understand that we were fighting | |
07:10 | because we hold on to our culture till the end, | |
07:14 | to our way of life, and we do not want to be dissolved | |
07:18 | in anybody’s melting pot. | |
07:22 | We want them to respect | |
07:26 | who and what we are. For a thousand years | |
07:30 | we protected the borders of Europe and | |
07:34 | fought for our national independence. | |
07:38 | We are a brave and warrior nation, | |
07:42 | one that knows it is not respected, but despised. | |
07:46 | That’s why they do not understand us in Brussels, | |
07:50 | Because they did not understand us, even then. | |
07:54 | … Respected celebrating crowd! | |
08:02 | Respected celebrating crowd! | |
08:06 | We are not only standing beside the House of Terror museum, | |
08:10 | but on one of the world’s most beautiful boulevards. | |
08:14 | Here towering ahead of us in sheer reality, | |
08:18 | that beauty and greatness | |
08:22 | of which our nation is capable. Here are lined up | |
08:26 | the palaces of Andrássy street; that way the | |
08:30 | Heroes’ Square; the other way the Opera House and the Chain Bridge. | |
08:34 | A heritage, an enthralling heritage, | |
08:38 | to which all of us are obliged. | |
08:42 | Our old squares are not theatrical scenery, for us to wonder at | |
08:46 | with amazement. These are gauges | |
08:50 | and measuring devices. Signals and warnings. | |
08:54 | A nation that reached such peaks | |
08:58 | as we have — not just once — can’t be | |
09:02 | content with less. We can’t be content with less today, either! | |
09:14 | …There were periods | |
09:18 | when we were in control of an empire. | |
09:22 | There were occasions — more than once — when, | |
09:26 | after the destruction by our enemies, we had to rebuild and | |
09:30 | reorganize our devastated homeland. | |
09:34 | We never hid from the responsibility, nor | |
09:38 | from work or from the good Lord’s will. | |
09:42 | We undertook what needed to be done, | |
09:46 | There were those who stood in the battlefields, and those | |
09:50 | who, with their intellectual power, assured our place | |
09:54 | In the rank of nations. Today we celebrate that day | |
09:58 | when many millions of Hungarians again | |
10:02 | realized: although we live different lives, | |
10:06 | we all belong to the same nation. | |
10:10 | Today we remember that moment, | |
10:14 | when the cardinal and the turner, | |
10:18 | the philosophers and the brats of Pest, | |
10:22 | when the Archduke and the Interior Minister — who was a Soviet partisan — | |
10:26 | wanted the very same thing. | |
10:30 | Today we remember that touch which plowed through | |
10:34 | the walls separating the torn-apart fragments of the country | |
10:38 | and permeated the student assemblies in Erdely [Transylvania] | |
10:42 | or the prison cells of Szamosujvar. Peter Mansfeld, | |
10:46 | Maria Wittner, Laszlo Dozsa, Janos Szabo, | |
10:50 | Gergely Pongratz, Imre Nagy, Jozsef Mindszenty | |
10:54 | We look at them, but we see a nation. | |
10:58 | Respected ladies and gentlemen… | |
11:06 | …The remembrance | |
11:10 | helps the truth of our present life | |
11:14 | to stare in the face, too. | |
11:18 | The truth is that thirty years after Communism | |
11:22 | there exists once again a global force | |
11:26 | that wants to repaint the European nations in a single color, | |
11:30 | And wants to knead them into a consistent mass. | |
11:34 | Like every other cultured nation, | |
11:38 | we Hungarians always had our own notions about | |
11:42 | Hungary. A vision about freedom, | |
11:46 | about civilization. A vision | |
11:50 | about how to be human, | |
11:54 | And live as human beings. We always | |
11:58 | rebuilt our country this way, when | |
12:02 | we got rid of our current oppressors. | |
12:06 | So it was, too, at the time when we toppled | |
12:10 | Communism and sent the Soviets home. | |
12:14 | The truth is that now, after three decades, | |
12:18 | once again everything we think about | |
12:22 | Hungary and the order of the Hungarian life is endangered. | |
12:26 | The truth is, after achieving freedom in 1990, | |
12:30 | once again we have arrived at | |
12:34 | a turning point in our history. | |
12:38 | We wanted to believe that the old problems | |
12:42 | could no longer return. We wanted to believe | |
12:46 | that the crazed dreams of the Communists — that | |
12:50 | from us Hungarians they would fabricate Homo Sovieticus — | |
12:54 | could never happen again. And now we stand here | |
12:58 | and look in stunned amazement | |
13:02 | at the forces of globalism straining against our doors, | |
13:06 | the way they work to shape Hungarians into | |
13:10 | Homo Brusselicus. We wanted | |
13:14 | to believe… | |
13:18 | …We wanted to believe that we would | |
13:22 | never again have to deal with political, economic | |
13:26 | and mental forces that want to cut | |
13:30 | our national roots. We also wanted to believe | |
13:34 | that in Europe terror and violence | |
13:38 | cannot raise its head. | |
13:42 | This is not what has happened. Europe was blinded | |
13:46 | by its old successes, lost its significance | |
13:50 | on the world stage, in such a way that it did not even realize it. | |
13:54 | It dreamed about its role as a world leader. Today not even its neighbors | |
13:58 | care much about it, and even in its own house | |
14:02 | it is barely able to keep order. But instead of admitting this, | |
14:06 | it initiates revenge campaigns | |
14:10 | against those who warn about intellectual suicide | |
14:14 | and the dangers of nihilism. | |
14:18 | They labeled as diehards those who believed Europe | |
14:22 | needs solid, defendable external borders. | |
14:26 | They stigmatized as racists those who believed | |
14:30 | that immigration presents a danger to our culture. | |
14:34 | They stigmatized as exclusionists those who | |
14:38 | raised their voice in defense of Christianity. | |
14:42 | They stigmatized as homophobic | |
14:46 | those who stood in defense of the family. | |
14:50 | They called Nazis those who believed Europe | |
14:54 | is an alliance of nations. And finally they labeled as screwballs | |
14:58 | those who deviated from the economic path of Brussels, | |
15:02 | which leads to a swamp. | |
15:06 | Only a few of us survived these revenge campaigns. | |
15:14 | This arrogance… | |
15:18 | This arrogance led Europe into that economic, | |
15:22 | political and intellectual chaos which | |
15:26 | now every country wants to escape. That is the truth | |
15:30 | that we have to face today. | |
15:34 | Detour! It looks like there [Brussels] | |
15:38 | they do not know our king Saint Stephen’s admonitions, | |
15:42 | and I quote: “Nothing can lift you up but humility; | |
15:46 | nothing can throw you down but arrogance and | |
15:50 | hatred.” Respected ladies and gentlemen… | |
15:58 | …The European people | |
16:02 | — we among them — became fed up with the idea that | |
16:06 | globalization had to be accepted as an irresistible force. | |
16:10 | We became fed up that they hammer into our heads | |
16:14 | day and night that we cannot do anything; we must tolerate it, | |
16:18 | adapt to it, and that we must bow down. | |
16:22 | The reason we wanted and still want the European Union | |
16:26 | is to have the assurance and means | |
16:30 | with which the European nations can defend their | |
16:34 | shared thoughts of their civilization. | |
16:38 | But in reality we made ourselves more vulnerable | |
16:42 | than before. In every crisis situation, | |
16:46 | they scream “Europe”, like it’s some kind of magic word, | |
16:50 | which can by itself avert our fate. | |
16:54 | That is why Europe ran into a dead end. | |
16:58 | We Hungarians know why. This time of the year, on October 23, | |
17:02 | we see this most clearly. In the 20th century | |
17:06 | military empires caused the problems. | |
17:10 | Now on the lee of the wave of globalization, financial empires | |
17:14 | have arisen. They do not have borders, but they have world media, | |
17:18 | and they have tens of thousands of bought people. | |
17:22 | They do not have a solid structure, | |
17:26 | but they have an extended network. | |
17:30 | They are fast, strong and brutal. This empire of | |
17:34 | financial speculators successfully captured Brussels, | |
17:38 | and many member states, too. As long as it fails to regain its | |
17:42 | sovereignty, the steering wheel of Europe | |
17:46 | cannot be turned back to the correct direction. | |
17:50 | This empire brought upon us the modern-day | |
17:54 | mass migration, the millions of migrants and the new | |
17:58 | immigration invasion. They prepared the plan | |
18:02 | That wants to convert Europe into | |
18:06 | a mixed-race continent. Now we are the only ones | |
18:10 | resisting. We ended up | |
18:14 | in a situation where Central Europe is the last | |
18:18 | migrant-free region. That is why | |
18:22 | the fight about the future of Europe will be focused here. | |
18:34 | Respected ladies and gentlemen, we Hungarians | |
18:38 | were the ones who broke the ice of silence. | |
18:42 | We are the ones who | |
18:46 | named the forces that want to cut Europe’s | |
18:50 | national roots. We brought to light | |
18:54 | the announcement, first of national, then later | |
18:58 | international collaboration against them. | |
19:02 | We could not do it differently. The twilight | |
19:06 | and covert war is not our world, | |
19:10 | one that we could never win. In the dark, | |
19:14 | our enemies have overwhelming odds. Only | |
19:18 | in a fair open fight, with clear and open speech, | |
19:22 | can we have any chance to defend our borders, | |
19:26 | to stop the migration and to protect our | |
19:30 | national identity. If we want a Hungarian Hungary | |
19:34 | and a European Europe, then | |
19:38 | we must openly talk about it… | |
19:42 | And it is not enough to talk; we must fight, just as | |
19:46 | we have always done, when our freedom and our | |
19:50 | independence are at stake. Respected celebrants! | |
19:54 | Today every election in Europe | |
19:58 | is historic. There was the Austrian, the | |
20:02 | German, the Czech, and next year will be the Italian | |
20:06 | and the Hungarian ones, too. Now it will be decided | |
20:10 | whether the citizens of Europe will take back | |
20:14 | control of their own nations. Take it back | |
20:18 | from the European bureaucrats in collusion with the financial elite. | |
20:22 | On every stage: in politics, | |
20:26 | in the economy, in intellectual life, and | |
20:30 | first of all in the culture, we must initiate deep changes. | |
20:34 | Now it will be decided whether we successfully | |
20:38 | can bring back the old — before multiculturalism — | |
20:42 | our great Europe. We want a safe, | |
20:46 | reasonable, civil, Christian and | |
20:50 | free Europe… | |
21:06 | Still… Still many people | |
21:10 | think that it is impossible. | |
21:14 | But let us think about 1956. | |
21:18 | How many would have thought on the morning of | |
21:22 | October 23rd, on their way to work on the streetcar, | |
21:26 | that by evening in place of the Stalin sculpture only a couple of | |
21:30 | boots would remain? How many would have believed | |
21:34 | that if necessary even adolescents could take up arms? | |
21:38 | [Istvan] Orkeny wrote about | |
21:42 | a civilian home in Pest, where a little boy knocked on the door: | |
21:46 | “Lady, please, if I clean my shoes real good, | |
21:50 | may I shoot out of the window?” And in 1988, how many believed | |
21:54 | that Communism, | |
21:58 | in just one year, would come down, and we would count it out, | |
22:02 | that we would force a step-down, and the Soviet troops | |
22:06 | would be ordered out of the country? And who would have believed before 2010 | |
22:10 | …That soon we would have a new Constitution on | |
22:14 | a nationalist basis, with a Christian culture and capable | |
22:18 | of protecting our families and values. They said: impossible! | |
22:26 | They said… they said it was | |
22:30 | impossible to send the IMF home. They said it was impossible to make the banks accountable, | |
22:34 | and impossible to tax the multis [multinational corporations]. | |
22:38 | they said it was impossible to reduce the cost of living. They said it was impossible | |
22:42 | to give work to everyone, that it was impossible to resist the migration, | |
22:46 | and that it was impossible to stop | |
22:50 | the migrant invasion at our borders with a fence. | |
22:54 | I did not mention it to you once… | |
23:02 | I could not say it to you once | |
23:06 | that we will be successful. In life | |
23:10 | there are no guarantees for such things. But one thing | |
23:14 | is certain: if we do not try, | |
23:18 | we will surely fail. Some risks | |
23:22 | always exist… in 1956 | |
23:26 | we saved the honor of our country. | |
23:30 | In 1990 we took back our freedom. | |
23:34 | In 2010 we set out on the path of national unification. | |
23:38 | For us, nobody can say: impossible. | |
23:46 | We know the migration can be stopped, | |
23:50 | globalization can be thwarted, | |
23:54 | Brussels can be curbed, | |
23:58 | a financial speculator’s plan can be scuttled, | |
24:02 | the crazy idea of United European States | |
24:06 | can be forced into a straitjacket. | |
24:10 | …All that is needed… | |
24:14 | All that is needed here in Central Europe | |
24:18 | is for Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians | |
24:22 | and Hungarians to join forces; we only need | |
24:26 | to discover the power in our hands, in our minds, in our hearts, | |
24:30 | and behave as befits proud nations. | |
24:34 | Respected celebrants! The stakes are high… | |
24:42 | The stakes are high. We cannot take anything lightly | |
24:46 | We can’t be lulled into inaction and convenience | |
24:50 | in our present strength. We shall never underestimate | |
24:54 | the power of the dark side! | |
24:58 | We have good odds for the next election, but have not yet | |
25:02 | deserved, not yet fought for our victory. | |
25:06 | We will need everybody, so in the upcoming months | |
25:10 | we will prepare, we will restart in March, and then in April | |
25:14 | we will win again. Hurrah Hungary, hurrah Hungarians! |
This leader knows the dangers of globalization and how one size will not fit all but binds the people as communism did when it chained workers to the machines in service to the State.
He clearly and unequivocally equates the Nazi Arrow-Cross and the Communists as what they, in truth were: two different kinds of socialism. He has clearly on many occasions implicitly rejected the fascist-right in Hungary, never speaking ‘double talk’ to court them as did the elder Le Pen. That is why he has made himself a place in the forefront of the defense of Europe.
Fascism is simply another form of socialism. Therefore, it too belongs alongside National Socialism and all forms of Communism as a product of idealistic socialism.
Fascism is command pricing and private ownership.
Socialism is market pricing and public ownership.
Communism is command pricing and public ownership.
Capitalism is market pricing and private ownership.
The fascism was the invention of Mussolini, who was a radical Marxist, and he figured it out, that those countries, where the worker class economical situation was better than average, they will never rise up, so the classic worker-capitalist struggle will never happen. That is why he placed his movement on nationalist platform. This was later adapted by the Nazis, but all the other parts: socialist basis, totalitarian state control, stayed exactly the way the communists designed it. (Dinesh D’Souza – The Big Lie)
After the fall of the fascist movements the left tried (successfully) to represent fascism and Nazis as right wing movements. After the fall of the classic communist systems (Eastern Europe and Soviet-union) the Marxists broke into two groups: one of them replaced the class struggle with environmental Protection, where they demand the creation of a worldwide totalitarian state “in the sake of the planet” to take power. The other group is the Cultural Marxists – the Frankfurt School. They based it on the original Communist doctrine, – which states, the main block to establish the new totalitarian Communist utopia is the western civilization. But instead of open fight, they wanted to achieve this by going undercover in the system and use different (really any) groups to fight each other to breakdown society. (As present situation show, they achieved significant success). The so called “liberals” has nothing to do with the classical Liberalism, much more like the intellectual successors of the Bolsheviks so the Liberal-Bolsheviks, is the better name for them. The traditional left and right lost its meaning and we need a new definition:
A Liberal-Bolsheviks, the Nazis, the Communists and the Muslims are ALL COLLECTIVISTS.
This is what defines the “Left”, totalitarian state, total control, the rights of the individual nullified and ignored by the interest of the state. The government is led by an unelected elitist group. (Their storm-troopers are ANTIFA, the classic Communist death-squads, Nazi brown-shirts, the fascist black-shirts (originally in Italy) and of course the Muslims who pack this into a religious cover)
The INDIVIDUALISTS are now on the right, who thinks the individual rights are the most important, the state is a necessary bad, which should be kept as small and cheap, the rights to freedom should not be curbed and limitation kept to a minimum.
The radical right winger is the classic anarchist, who does not want any government and believes in the “non-aggression principle”, which drives his moral and ethical standing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
The classic Liberal now is on the right, because the concept and representation of individual freedom no longer present on the Left.
Well put there CrossWare! A great analysis!
Thanks! 🙂
Indeed excellent Crossware! And thank you for all your hard work.
Thanks to whoever it was (a piece of software?) who took the time-stamped transcript and reformatted the text into easier-to-read paragraphs.
I recently read the book “Hollywood Animal” by the scriptwriter Joe Eszterhas. The chapters alternate between Hollywood goings-on and his experiences growing up since coming to Cleveland with this parents as a child following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The Hungarian chapters were more interesting. Just skip the Hollywood chapters and you’ll have an interesting autobiography.
No, I have to “de-time” those transcripts by hand, and then paragraph them. It adds about 15-20 minutes to the job, which is why I don’t do it very often.
There should be a way to use regular expression logic to do the job more quickly. I’ll investigate it, but not tonight.
In the finale of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, there’s a glorious, triumphal gallop which Leonard Bernstein said had “the swagger of a Hungarian cavalryman”. I find myself thinking of it.
After this speech has echoed throughout Brussels, there can only be one direction for the V4 nations and now Austria, on which to take. I note Donald Tusk is speeding up his masters urgency in establishing a ‘European Military’, and especially an army whose function will be quite literally to keep the EU together, and that can only mean one thing in this time of rebellion within Europe.
I was nine in 1956 and couldn’t understand why nobody answered the Hungarians pleas for help. I suppose that’s why Orban knows that people have to fight for their own freedom.
I also remember the “blood in the water” polo match between Hungary and the USSR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ca8P65IUkM
I have a Hungarian friend who got 101 on a science exam in high school and could run like the wind..We were born in 1956..His parents were both great people..Orban runs like the wind as well..
..and ain’t no dummy or dhimmi either.
Wow! What a great leader, showing every kind of charisma, intellectual acumen, and a superb character. Thanks to CrossWare for the translation and Tepes for connecting the transcript to the video, displaying the full power and impact of Orban’s presentation.
It occurs to me a speech like this absolutely cannot be given in a “diverse” nation. The speech draws on the common experience and history of a people, drawing lessons on its character and destiny. If his country had a significant proportion of Muslims, sub-Saharan Africans, East Africans, or Indians, the speech would be simply like rainwater: it would flow off their faces leaving no trace. The Muslims and Africans have their own passions and by all means should be free to pursue them: in Muslim countries and in Africa.
Orban is quite correct in viewing financiers and consolidators as his enemy, but the destruction of a country’s base and people through financial consolidation and specialized financial manipulations has been around since the Roman empire. Trading protectionism can result in more expensive goods, but slows or halts the destruction of the small farmers and tradesmen who form the heart of a culture.
One part of the lead-in to the speech which impressed me was the account of the refusal of the Hungarian Army in 1956 to obey foreign orders, but instead joined the rebellion. This is a recurring problem for dictators and tyrants: the regular army is always unreliable when used against the population.
The solution is to use mercenary troops who have no identification with the local population. The original framers of the Constitution viewed a regular army as mercenary and viewed it as a threat to liberty. We are now, in the US, seeing the current spectacle of the national police and security agencies, the FBI and CIA, in almost open rebellion against the elected executive and congressional leaders.
Thanks Ronald B! 🙂
The Globalists want to keep Islam for sure. If you think about it, it is the perfect control for the masses. While Christianity lost its teeth as societal control (it was not as aggressive to begin with as Islam), the cult of Islam stayed unchanged and their members just as happily beating to pulp anybody from their own group, who accidentally born with more brains than them… for 1400 years, without any change. For the Globalists this is an extra advantage, they will not need to keep an expensive and dangerous army or police force. (dangerous because they can bite their master’s hand and took over). Islam is cheap, reliable for the new “consumer” society. The technology will be maintained by the new progressive leftist cast… Purple-haired, safe-space loving, multi-gendered wussy transvestites will be kept in line with some muslim muscle, while muslims will be held back with remote controlled drones and other advanced weaponry. Dissenters from either group will be at the mercy of the others, with no possibility to mount any cooperation across the society. This will be the “bright new world” in the style of the Hunger Games and Elysium.
The best comment I have seen from another commenter:
“The globalists LOVE Islam. It’s everything they could possibly want in a false religion. They love its brutality, the way it viciously polices its own and crushes dissent from within. They love its dehumanization, how it turns its followers into little more than human ammunition, eager to be spent in the slaughter of infidels. They love its crushing of spirit, how it keeps entire populations ignorant of history and science while living in destitute poverty, convincing them that fighting the infidels is more important than civilian infrastructure. They love its real rape culture, the way it reduces women and girls to mere livestock, to be raped or beaten or killed or sold on a whim. But most of all, they love its system of unquestioning loyalty, how its followers wouldn’t dare think twice if their imams told them to butcher that person or blow up that kindergarten or beat their own daughter to death. This is why the demonic death cult of Islam has been chosen by the globalists as the official false religion of their new world order.” – cyberjacques
Of course, Islam teaches that questions are the tool of the devil.
Thus anyone who questions Islam is an apostate who needs to be killed.
By doing this, the problem element is removed and a powerful message is sent to the rest of the Ummah about what happens to those that step out of line.
You’re welcome CrossWare.
I think there is one qualification to be made. The globalist fascists might consider Islam to be an excellent tool, but history is awash in stories of domestic disputes in which one side or the other invited a foreign power in to “assist” with the dispute. Generally, the consequence is, the “assisting” power stayed, and the parties involved in the domestic dispute lost their independence.
Islam is like the foreign power brought in to give military advantage to one side or another. Once there, Islam will not be junior partner to anyone, and will likely not tolerate any rivals in power or in culture. The classic case is the Iranian revolution, won through the collaboration of the Iranian communists and Muslims. Once the revolution was won, the Ayatollah hung, literally, his communist “allies”. Like the Boshevism of Stalin or the Nazi party of Hitler, rivals of Islam will not be tolerated.
That doesn’t mean the globalist fascists will regret their choice. They hate freedom and the people more than they aspire to power. More than anything else, I think they resent the existence of real men and real people who have a culture of their own. The financiers and bureaucrats have a specialized gift allowing them to predominate in a world of complex money and power transactions, but they couldn’t go for a walk in the woods by themselves or take the dominant role in a male-female relationship.
What you describe is the way Iberia was conquered by Islam. The Moors would ally themselves with one faction, and then another, of the warring Christian (Gothic) kingdoms. They never lost site of the larger goal, which was to take the entire land for Islam, as the opportunities arose. And that’s what they did, piece by piece, decade by decade, until almost all of the peninsula was theirs.
Of course the scenario I described looked at this from the Globalists’ perspective. Yes Islam will stab them in the back and they going to get what they deserve. I do not think these people are driven by hate; more like greed, arrogance and cowardice. I believe they accelerated their plans for global domination because they afraid, – with good reason – they will be hanged, once the FIAT money system collapses.
As the Romans did, stationing troops anywhere but their native lands.
Great speech, Orban is Luke Skywalker to Soros’ Vader/Palpatine.
I was in Budapest for the anniversary this time last year. If you have the means just go, friendly people, great food, and excellent wine abound!
Thanks for visiting! Hungary will always welcome you back! 🙂
Darn, extra “be” in the comment
I would just like to remind the author and all the readers. 1956 was not a revolution but a FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!!!!!