Last Saturday Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was invited to speak at an annual event hosted by the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) in Rome. If Italians are ever allowed to vote again, the FdI will almost certainly become part of the next governing coalition, along with Matteo Salvini and the Lega.
Mr. Orbán gave a rousing speech that was punctuated about five minutes in by the Italian audience singing a popular political anthem (in Italian) about the Hungarian uprising against the Soviets in 1956. When you watch that part of the excerpt below, you’ll see Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Fratelli d’Italia, stand up and sing along with everyone else.
Many thanks to CrossWare for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling. The translated lyrics of the Italian song have been inserted at the appropriate point:
Video transcript:
00:32 | Good day, distinguished ladies and gentlemen. | |
00:40 | Thank you for the invitation, Madame President, | |
00:44 | and thank you for your interest. | |
00:48 | Your interest | |
00:52 | honors me, and it is also touching. | |
00:56 | You are Italians, | |
01:00 | and I am a Hungarian. | |
01:04 | The population of Italy is six times larger than Hungary’s, | |
01:08 | its territory three and half times [that of Hungary]. | |
01:12 | Your gross national product represents | |
01:16 | another category. You have a huge army, | |
01:20 | whereas Hungary’s army is not even worth mentioning. | |
01:24 | Italian is spoken over half the globe, | |
01:28 | whereas Hungarian spoken only by us. | |
01:32 | Under such circumstances, it is such an honor to have your interest! | |
01:36 | … I thought about why you have such a great interest | |
01:40 | in Hungary… | |
01:48 | …I think | |
01:52 | that the interest of the Italians has | |
01:56 | two reasons. | |
02:00 | Everybody who can make sense of a map knows | |
02:04 | that in Europe since 2015 there have been two | |
02:08 | key countries: Italy, | |
02:12 | the gateway on the sea, and Hungary, the gateway on land, | |
02:16 | the gateways into Europe. | |
02:20 | The similarity was probably the object of your interest. | |
02:24 | On the other hand, in Hungary since 2010 | |
02:28 | we have created a particular | |
02:32 | state model, | |
02:36 | which immediately came under fire from Brussels, | |
02:40 | from the European Left, and from the American Left, | |
02:44 | via the George Soros-type NGOs. This made | |
02:48 | Hungary into a black sheep, | |
02:52 | which also became of interest to others, and that could perhaps be the second reason | |
02:56 | that today so many of you here are interested in Hungary. | |
03:00 | Before I would tell you my thoughts, | |
03:04 | we must clarify the question: | |
03:08 | Is it possible for an Italian to understand a Hungarian? | |
03:12 | …After all, | |
03:16 | these are two different countries, and we Hungarians, | |
03:20 | we spent close to fifty years under Communist oppression | |
03:24 | and occupation, while you were free. | |
03:28 | I found a couple of reasons why the Italians and Hungarians | |
03:32 | might be able to understand each other. First of all, north of Italy | |
03:36 | is part of Central Europe, | |
03:40 | and once upon a time it was our neighbor. | |
03:44 | And then one of the best-known Italian | |
03:48 | commercial brands, the “Illy coffee,” | |
03:52 | comes from the name “Károly Illy”, | |
03:56 | a Hungarian man’s name. The man who established | |
04:00 | this brand had a Hungarian family name. | |
04:04 | And the Italians wrote the most beautiful song about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, | |
04:08 | which starts something like this: | |
04:12 | “Avanti ragazzi di buda” Forward Boys of Budapest Forward boys from Buda, We’ve stood watch during the night I remember you had a rifle Six days and six nights of glory The tanks crushed our bones, Girl, don’t tell my mother Comrades, we are doomed Comrade, the squad advances, Comrade, hide the rifle Forward boys from Buda, |
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05:28 | So, well… | |
05:32 | such people, who can better sing | |
05:36 | the sadness of another nation | |
05:40 | than the nation itself, must understand us well. | |
05:44 | I would like to add that nowadays the Hungarian soccer team | |
05:48 | is managed by an Italian man: | |
05:52 | Marco Rossi. This gives me a chance that what I will say | |
05:56 | today will be understood by you, and I will be able to answer the questions. | |
06:00 | To sum it up, there is a chance that today | |
06:04 | we will understand each other. | |
06:08 | Dear friends, to understand my thoughts | |
06:12 | you should know the position | |
06:16 | from which I am speaking. | |
06:20 | Since 1984 — I am saying this to the youngsters — | |
06:24 | so since 1984, I have been in politics. | |
06:28 | Between 1984 and 1990 | |
06:32 | I organized the anti-communist resistance for students. | |
06:36 | After the first free election | |
06:40 | in 1990… | |
06:52 | This fact, that we were in the anti-communist resistance, | |
06:56 | and we fought for democracy, in Brussels | |
07:00 | does not concern many people when they trying to “educate” us about democracy, | |
07:04 | which they received for free, while we had to fight very hard for it. | |
07:08 | I became a member of parliament in 1990; | |
07:12 | I have been a representative for 30 years now. | |
07:16 | …Four times | |
07:20 | we won and four times we lost elections, | |
07:24 | and my perception about politics was | |
07:28 | that politics is a service and not | |
07:32 | a career, so when I lost I stayed in politics. | |
07:36 | I never joined corporations. I never gave talks for money. | |
07:40 | I have stayed on the job and continued to serve Hungary. | |
07:44 | To understand me, you must know that four times | |
07:48 | I formed a government, the first one when I was 35. | |
07:52 | And since 2010 was successively | |
07:56 | elected three times in a row with a two-thirds super majority. | |
08:00 | I head a government in Hungary where | |
08:04 | there is no requirement for a coalition, and because of that | |
08:08 | the government is unified. It is also good to know, | |
08:12 | it is useful knowledge, that Hungary | |
08:16 | is a structurally conservative country. We are the only | |
08:20 | nation in Europe where since 1990 | |
08:24 | every elected parliament served its | |
08:28 | full four-year term. We never had early elections. | |
08:32 | …Today’s Hungarian | |
08:36 | political space — | |
08:40 | if I am to place it in today’s talk, then I must say | |
08:44 | that your Madame President | |
08:48 | would be in the political center, and I would stand a little bit to the right of her. | |
09:04 | I am not a philosopher, | |
09:08 | nor am I a political scientist. When I speak, | |
09:12 | when I speak to you, | |
09:16 | I speak from experience, from | |
09:20 | the perspective of a man of action, not as a scientist, and | |
09:24 | not as an analyst, but I represent the political fighter’s | |
09:28 | position. So… | |
09:32 | So… | |
09:40 | The first part of the question is migration. | |
09:44 | As I see it, in 2015 | |
09:48 | an INVASION into Europe began. | |
09:52 | One should have known from the beginning | |
09:56 | that out of ten migrants, nine are | |
10:00 | not refugees, but economic migrants. | |
10:04 | If someone were to say this was unknown at the time, he is not telling the truth! | |
10:08 | This was clearly known, and every European leader knew it, too. | |
10:12 | In 2015 I saw that there are leaders | |
10:16 | in Europe who will ruin | |
10:20 | the European way of life and European culture, | |
10:24 | and through that they will ruin the European economy, too. | |
10:28 | I have always thought | |
10:32 | that the Left has an intellectual concept, | |
10:36 | and they use migration to achieve that concept in reality. | |
10:40 | The Left’s intellectual concept is | |
10:44 | that Europe should leave behind | |
10:48 | the national and Christian era, and Europe should step over | |
10:52 | the threshold to a post-national and post-Christian era. | |
10:56 | And according to the interpretation of the Left, | |
11:00 | to aid this crossing-over | |
11:04 | is the mission of Brussels and the EU. | |
11:08 | Against that, the Right speaks of an alliance of sovereign nations; | |
11:12 | that is the concept opposing the Left. I also have to say — | |
11:16 | based on my experience — that the Left has a vested interest in migration. | |
11:20 | They have interests. First: its serves their ideological | |
11:24 | goals. Then they have a BUSINESS here. | |
11:28 | The leftist lawyers, the sociological | |
11:32 | sector, social workers have their business here, | |
11:36 | who align themselves with the human smugglers, and they build | |
11:40 | an economy that moves a significant quantity of money. | |
11:44 | I know many would accuse me | |
11:48 | of being a conspiracy theorist, but | |
11:52 | I have clearly seen it, and that is my experience, and I can see | |
11:56 | that the Left in reality IMPORTS VOTERS | |
12:00 | when they bring in migrants. | |
12:04 | They want to sooner or later give them citizenship… | |
12:12 | …they will give them citizenship, and the migrants | |
12:16 | will become voting citizens, and these are Muslim | |
12:20 | people, and NEVER VOTE for a party based on Christian roots, | |
12:24 | nor do they ever support such politics. And that will mean that if a lot of migrants | |
12:28 | come to Europe, it will decrease, and | |
12:32 | it will eliminate the chance that in Europe any | |
12:36 | Christian-based political force could gain a majority | |
12:40 | and form a Christian right-wing government. The Left knows this, | |
12:44 | and what it is doing, it is doing for exactly that purpose. | |
12:48 | Respected friends, ladies and gentlemen, | |
12:52 | after 2015 the Right collected itself with great difficulty. | |
12:56 | We began a right-wing | |
13:00 | counter-attack. We stated | |
13:04 | that of course there are crisis regions around the world, | |
13:08 | and there are suffering people, | |
13:12 | but the correct way would be to take the help there, | |
13:16 | instead of bringing the trouble here. And based on this platform — | |
13:20 | to take the help there and not the problem here — | |
13:24 | a few countries | |
13:28 | created a loose alliance with each other. | |
13:32 | These are the V4 countries — which include Hungary — | |
13:36 | Austria, Bavaria, | |
13:40 | and with Salvini, Italy would become such a country, too. | |
13:44 | Since then what happened? | |
13:48 | The Left shot down the Austrian government, | |
13:52 | Bavaria backed out, | |
13:56 | in Italy — if I understand it correctly — | |
14:00 | the government was separated from the people, | |
14:04 | and now they are working | |
14:08 | in the V4 … | |
14:12 | to achieve some kind of change. | |
14:16 | …Our task now is that we are trying to remove | |
14:20 | the freshly-established European Commission | |
14:24 | from Leftist influence, and there is some hope for that. | |
14:28 | Let me phrase it more precisely: there is more of a chance for that | |
14:32 | than we have ever had before. I can see that now a new | |
14:36 | leftist offensive is unfolding. | |
14:40 | There are new leftist politicians appearing who learned nothing. | |
14:44 | My old “colleagues” are returning. | |
14:48 | I have seen Mr. Renzi, | |
14:52 | I can see the designated Italian for the European Commission | |
14:56 | is my former colleague… | |
15:00 | and I can see where the Left is taking back the government. | |
15:04 | Everywhere… | |
15:08 | …everywhere | |
15:12 | the same thing is happening: the Left lets the migrants in and raises | |
15:16 | taxes. We can examine any countries; these two mistakes | |
15:20 | are always made by the Left, with no exceptions. | |
15:24 | They are letting in the migrants and raising taxes. | |
15:28 | They learned nothing from the mistakes of the past, | |
15:32 | They brought up once again the mandatory migrant distribution quota. | |
15:36 | I saw my colleague PM Conte visited you, | |
15:40 | and suggested that you interrogate me about | |
15:44 | why Hungary does not help Italy more | |
15:48 | on the issue of migration. | |
15:52 | I will say here what I already told him: | |
15:56 | Hungary is ready to help Italy in whatever | |
16:00 | way we can. There are areas where we cannot help! | |
16:04 | We cannot help with the transport | |
16:08 | and settlement of any migrants in Hungary. That is impossible! | |
16:12 | But once you decide it, we can help you | |
16:16 | defend your borders, and if you are determined | |
16:20 | to send home the migrants who are already here, | |
16:24 | we can help you with that, too. Mandatory settlement quotas | |
16:28 | we cannot accept, but deportation quotas with pleasure! | |
16:32 | …So if PM Conte | |
16:36 | were to ask the Hungarians | |
16:40 | to send home a couple of thousand migrants from Italy — to where they came from — | |
16:44 | then Hungary will be ready and will help fulfill such obligations. | |
16:48 | Respected ladies and gentlemen, some exciting days lie ahead | |
16:52 | in international politics, | |
16:56 | …We have Austrian elections coming, | |
17:00 | a Polish election coming, | |
17:04 | local government elections coming in Hungary, and | |
17:08 | as for Italy, we await your return to the club. That is | |
17:12 | the situation in the field of international politics for this fall. Respected ladies and gentlemen… |
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I listen to Viktor Orban’s speeches I just want to emigrate to Hungary.
He’s absolutely brimming with commonsense and courage.
Well done Hungary ,no man can be admired as much by sensible people globally.
You can take credit for producing a great man ,a towering intellect and a leader who loves his country and his people and always puts them first.
The world would be a far better place with more men like Orban in it.
Ditto.
Agree 100%. It’s a pity this site does not support up & down votes, you would collect a lot of up votes.
Thank you so much Crossware and Vlad. Your contributions exceed our ability to properly thank you.
You very welcome! 😉
I just love that man , if Europe have leaders like this , all countries will be very happy, all citizens will be very happy, instead of this traitors like Germany, France , Sweden , Britain, Holland , making a nightmare as much as they can to completely destroy Europe, replace own population, very disturbing and dangerous..
How refreshing He is compared to this horror news and brainwashing people very unhealthy way and stressful for me at least, it’s unbelievable..
Nah. Just deport all of them.