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Travelling through Parallel Universes

• March 16, 2022
• István
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Yesterday happened in Budapest 2 demonstrations. Same day, same place, but so extremely different that it is impossible to bring both into the same reality.

One was held by a party that calls itself conservative, while the chairmen of the party of European conservatives spoke on the demonstration of those called leftwing by those “conservatives”. Those who held a so-called “peace” march did not talk about the fact that in a neighbouring country an aggressor is bombing hospitals, residential quarters, and treks with refugees. They did not use the name of the invading country, the president who ordered this war, and they did not side with the victim either. They only accused those they call leftwing to want this war.

The others didn’t use the expression peace for their gathering, but government change. They remembered the victims of the war with a minute silence, talked a lot about peace and war, they condemned the aggressor and the invading country and they sided with the attacked neighbour. The media of self-called “conservatives,” those, who held the “peace” march, reported that hardly 300 gathered with these so-called leftists. Here 2 pictures showing 300 people. Measuring with google maps the aerial picture covers just below 500 meter measured from the stage. Only on the visible part 300 persons mean a single row with holding more than 1.5 meter distance.

While all these people came on own costs the “peace” marchers were transported on state expense, the people were ordered to go by employers, local state-party bigwigs, just as in the good old communist times all have to send the number of people the state-party wants. Only on the Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 444 counted 196 busses, while at least 3 further parkings for busses were arranged. Not only professional bus services were used, but also busses of the local governments, EU financed by the “Magyar Falu Program.”

But demonstrators also came from abroad. Italy sent quite a number, while Poland did not deliver anybody this time. The Polish government has serious problems with their former friend Orbán concerning his still narrow friendship with Putin. Italian fascists have no problems with loving Putin. And it is very practically that their national colours are the same as ours, if flags are with horizontal or vertical stripes doesn’t matter, since one shouldn’t expect the most educated people to march for Orbán. The out-voted mayor of Budapest Újpest came with the flag of the district, which has 2 horizontal stripes red on top and yellow below. He admitted that a lot of people thought he came from Spain to march for Orbán, 444 reported. Also so-called ethnic Hungarians from Croatia arrived, a newspaper journalist reported that they spoke Croatian to each other. Yes, the GONGO (government owned non governmental organisation) CÖF called for “peace,” but it is generously funded by the state, very practical detail: The CÖF chairman is responsible for such funding in the relevant authority. Since we know that such an event takes place on order of a single man we also know that the CÖF is just a tool.

When Magyar Hang interviewed participants they got from them the answer that they came for Orbán. Not because of the war. But they knew that Zelensky should have given away what Putin wanted and the entire war just happens because of the Americans, it was their fault planning to put missiles onto the Russian border. Even the most stupid propaganda of UFO experts on M1 works! However, journalists understood from just listening what people were talking about that they were busy with practically everything – but not with politics, war or peace.

Individuals living in central Budapest showed that they are not pleased with this state-party show. A huge banner was put onto a building along the marching route saying “Oil may come from the east, but freedom comes from the west.” This was regarded to be very offensive to the hardcore FIDESZ fans in the crowd, obviously they weren’t aware that this is an Orbán quote out of the time when Putin invaded Georgia. Those days Orbán did not act as Putin’s puppet. Besides the opposition parties have put a lot of campaign posters onto the route. There was also a modern version of the perhaps most famous poster of the regime change era:

In his speech Orbán has repeated the claim that the opposition wants to get Hungary involved into the war and would send soldiers and weapons to Ukraine. That he himself just a few days ago voted in favour of the 2nd EU weapon purchase for Ukraine he didn’t mention of course. He refused to side with anybody, neither with Russia nor with Ukraine, neither with the USA nor Brussels. Whether Brussels means to him EU or NATO he didn’t explain. At this moment he is agreeing with everything within the EU, while hindering NATO. But we should understand that he won’t stop fighting the EU for long. Lately he wanted to be paid for allowing NATO troops pass through Hungary to Romania. One could believe that Hungary would not be member of EU and NATO, but would have an even higher level than the eternal neutrality of Switzerland. While the Swiss sided clearly with Ukraine, Hungary mustn’t side with its allies and morality mustn’t be considered at all. As Orbán put it nothing could be done regarding the war, he accepted it as he accepted the heavy snowfall when his minister of interior Pintér sent everybody in Hungary an SMS to stay in the car. This war is just another natural disaster impossible to prepare for. As everybody was sent into the long weekend of March 15th, 2013 who could have cleared the streets, while in Germany and Austria the heavy snow fell already, Orbán did not accept the information he got concerning Putin’s plans. We just need to remember that he was promoting his so successful peace mission in Moscow, which originally was thought to bring us into deeper dependence of Russian deliveries, until the missiles hit the resident areas of Kiev. Orbán is incapable to understand a world that doesn’t follow his orders, just as a 3-year-old child.

On the other side of the Danube at the same time several speakers appeared. Reciting Sándor Petőfi Unity for Hungary started. First speech held Gábor Iványi. He informed the demonstrators that the heads of government of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia would sit in a train on their way to a state visit of Ukraine. He said that Orbán was invited as well, but that he had to do something else. While one can have different opinions whether it makes sense to travel in a besieged capital, one can definitely say that Orbán, who wears bullet-proof vests even when visiting a kindergarten, wouldn’t have had gone if he had not the national holiday as excuse. Iványi rewrote biblical stories to meet the here and now, among them “Cain initiated a bilateral meeting with Abel as part of a family protection action plan.” He greeted both Ukrainians and Russians that might be in the crowd, and reminded to the fight of teachers. After years of forcing the anti-Ukraine propaganda for years Orbán would have masked as peace dove, just to continue his treason. Calling those who want to supply weapons to Ukraine freedom fighters to be warmongers is the shame of the nation. The foreign minister wearing the Russian medal of friendship is acting against the freedom of the entire world.

Many high ranked politicians spoke, they presented the democratic Hungary they want to build. Thereafter the Polish guest, the chairman of conservative EPP, Donald Tusk spoke. Although FIDESZ left EPP to avoid being expelled, their appendix KDNP, which in opposite to the other parties FIDESZ absorbed is formally still a party of its own, remained member of EPP, so Tusk spoke on the wrong place in this sense. Of course conservatives in the meaning of the word are part of Unity for Hungary and in this sense Tusk has proven all claims of Orbán about what he is staying for wrong.

“I am with you today because I am a Polish,” Tusk started. He reminded to general József Bem, who was from Polish origin and fought on the side of the 1848 revolution. Bem would be on the university quay today, not at that other place in Budapest. He said that freedom and solidarity are not empty slogans for Poles and Hungarians. In the war in the neighbourcountry, the Ukrainians are fighting not only for their own sovereignty, but for the freedom of Poland and Hungary as well. No honest person could doubt which side he is on in this fight. Viktor Orbán and his men worked to make the most pro-Putin opinion popular all across Europe. This is why Europe is hopefully looking forward to the April 3rd elections.

Péter Márki-Zay said that today, 33 years after the 3rd, the only bloodless and only victorious revolution, the regime change, we are not a people for the world any more. Today we are a single face only. The face of the man who expropriated us. When they say Hungarian in the world, this face appears in front of them. Blurring everything that generations have built up. Half the country hates me, he said, half the country expects hope and redemption from me. Dirty remarks from those who do not know me and whom I do not know come to me and my family every day. Those I have not hurt and I will never hurt, MZP continued. It is unacceptable that 33 years after the victorious change of regime, we have lost our own country again. It is also that this time it was not an external coercion but the selfishness and desire for power of our own leader that we chose the lagging East over the developing West, slavery over freedom, hatred over love because of our own voluntary destiny. We voluntarily went back to the bad side of history …. We believe that on April 3rd, Hungary will be the winner finally, be one people again, one nation again. That we again can say proudly wherever we go in the world that we are Hungarians!

Detailed reports have had 444 ►HU, Magyar Hang ►HU, and telex ►HU. The recording of Unity for Hungary demonstration can be found here ►HU.