[Grem] Viktor Orban's speech at yesterday's commemoration ceremony of the 1956 Hungarian revolution

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Daily News Hungary · 23/10/2021 ·

Viktor Orbán’s speech at the commemoration ceremony of the 1956 Hungarian
Revolution Budapest commemoration. National Day The Hungarian Revolution of
1956 Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary held his speech at Erzsébet
Square and commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution
against the Soviet terror in 1956, as well as the 15th anniversary of the
2006 events under the government of the opposition politician, Ferenc
Gyurcsány.

Events of *2006* Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, alluding to clashes between
Fidesz supporters and riot police in 2006 on the anniversary of the 1956
revolution on the spot in Budapest where he delivered his speech, said that
15 years ago “tear gas grenades” had been on one side and “a cheated and
humiliated nation” on the other. Speaking at a ceremony held at the
intersection of Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Street and Andrássy Street, the prime
minister said: “Fifteen years ago, at this very time, here on the corner of
Andrássy and Bajcsy-Zsilinszky streets, the past and the present confronted
one another.” “

On one side were tear gas grenades, rubber bullets, plain-clothed
unidentified police and water cannons,” Orbán said. “On the other side
stood a cheated and humiliated nation which … was yet again forced to
listen to the fact that they had been lied to morning and night.” “On one
side was a power that had cheated with hundreds of tricks … and on the
other were desperate people lined up behind the giant letters of Freedom.”



“Today we remember that moment when the Hungarian nation in a matter of
moments found itself,” Orbán said. In that moment, “the name Hungarian
became worthy of its great old fame,” he said. “The new generation of
communists in 2006 wrangled with this Hungary again,” Orbán said. He said
the Socialist-led government had entered into power by telling lies. They
deceived people by promising tax cuts before hiking taxes and introduced a
fee for hospital visits and made utility prices skyrocket, he added. The
previous government scrapped the 13th-month pensions and family benefit
schemes, and “pushed hundreds of thousands of families into the trap of
currency loans in cahoots with the international banks”, Orbán said. “They
sold off the entire country — everything, including its international
airport and national utility and public service providers — to foreigners,”
he said, adding that the next step “after bankrupting the country” was “to
put the IMF’s leash around our neck”. “And when we raised our voice against
it all, they responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and an attack by
police mounted on horses. They shot people’s eyes out and beat unprotected
women and elderly people with rubber batons,” Minister for families: “We,
Hungarians, carry the ever-lasting desire for freedom in our genes” The
Government’s work Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, addressing a crowd
commemorating the 1956 revolution in Budapest said that it had taken “years
to clear up the havoc the left-wing government left behind, but we have
succeeded in putting Hungary back on its feet”. “Mercifully, in the
meantime, national unity has endured and workers, engineers, farmers, small
and medium-sized firms, scientists, teachers, nurses and doctors have
cleared the ruins,”

Orbán said in his speech. “We have created a million new jobs, got rid of
foreign currency loans, cut taxes, and next year the minimum wage will be
higher than the average wage during the time of the [former governing]
Socialists.” The national wealth, he added, had grown one and a half times
since Fidesz’s time in power. “We taxed multinationals, protected families,
and now utility bills are the lowest in Europe,” he said. The prime
minister said Hungary was now giving both the elderly and young people
their due, with the phasing in of the 13-month pension and the tax break
for young workers being introduced next year. Further, families raising
children are getting this year’s taxes returned to them, he noted.

Hungarian identity Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in a speech commemorating
the 65th anniversary of Hungary’s anti-Soviet uprising in Budapest, said
Hungarians “on this day are saluting the wonderful day when we showed the
world who we really are”. “There are moments in the life of nations when
everybody suddenly feels that enough is enough; things can’t go on the way
they have done,” “We have to decide, and that decision will show who we
really are. It will transpire for a whole nation what that nation is worth.
Whether a nation remains silent or goes out to protest, whether it
reconciles itself with the situation or rises up against it, whether it
looks to one side or stands up straight, or whether it retreats or takes up
the fight,” Orbán said. Referring to 1956, Orbán said: “We Hungarians took
the right decision: we protested; we stood up straight and rose up and
fought [against Soviet rule]”. That meant taking a stand for freedom
against captivity, independence against occupation, and Hungarian patriots
standing against Communists, Orbán said.

LGBTQ issue Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in his speech said: “We’re
stopping overbearing LGBTQ propaganda at the school gate”. Orbán said it
was high time for Brussels to understand that in the end “not even the
communists got far with us.” “We’re the sand in the machinery, the spanner
in the works …” “We’re David who Goliath is best off steering clear of,” he
said. “We’re the ones who in ’56 poked global communism in the eye and the
ones who knocked the first brick out of the Berlin Wall,” Orbán added. The
prime minister said Hungarians were still confronting those who insisted
that Hungarians had been wrong, only to be proven right in the end. He said
Hungarians would be proven right “a third time” following their stance on
the issues of public utility bills and migration. “There will be a
referendum and we will protect our children,” Orbán declared. “Hungary will
be the first country in Europe to stop overbearing LGBTQ propaganda at the
school gate.”



October 23 – Budapest commemorations and traffic restrictions Niagara Falls
lit up in Hungarian national colours to commemorate 1956 Political
opposition Hungary’s PM added, that: “The left wing, however they disguise
themselves, are still the same left wing”. Quoting from the Gospel of
Matthew, Orbán said: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in
sheep’s clothing … by their fruit ye shall know them. The good tree
bringeth forth good fruit, and the bad tree bringeth forth evil fruit.” He
said the left wing “starts off by telling lies, carries on with violence
and then leaves everyone bankrupt.” Orbán insisted that Hungary’s left wing
was backed by international forces so massive that “only millions of
Hungarians joining together can defeat it”. “The real challenge, and even a
threat, is the international forces — the money, media and the network
behind them,” Orbán added. The prime minister urged the crowd to count on
each other. “This is our strength … no amount of dollars or euros in the
world can take this away from us,” he said. The prime minister concluded:
“We have come, we have seen and we will win again. The Lord looks upon us
and Hungary above all! Go Hungary! Go Hungarians!”
Source: dailynewshungary.com
https://dailynewshungary.com/viktor-orbans-speech-at-the-commemoration-ceremony-of-the-1956-hungarian-revolution/
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