“Today’s fight is in fact for the soul of the Western world,” Orbán said.
“The empire wants to mix the indigenous inhabitants of Europe with invading masses from a foreign civilisation and then replace them,” Orban said in his speech held in the gardens of the National Museum to mark the 177th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1848/49 revolution and freedom fight. He added that “the empire” also sought to drive “our children and grandchildren away from a healthy” way of life towards “the chaos of unnatural lifestyles” and “kick away the order and culture of Christian life”.
“It wants us to serve the gods of war instead of peace,” he declared.
Orban said the Western world was being wrecked by “the imperial machine”. “But we’ve managed to stop this at the borders of Hungary,” he said. “We haven’t given up.”
“We haven’t allowed them to occupy the country, parliament or the government, either,” he said, adding that for 15 years “all their weapons” of “blackmail, threats, mercenaries, and Brussels” targeting Hungary had not succeeded in undermining it.
“We have won four elections in a row, and our lines of defence have not been eroded in fifteen years,” the prime minister added.
The “masters of Europe” have decided that Ukraine must continue the war no matter the costs, “and in exchange, it will receive quick EU membership at our expense,” The Hungarian PM claimed. “We only have one answer to that: the Union but without Ukraine,” he said.
Orbán said Hungarians would have the opportunity to voice their opinion on Ukraine’s European Union aspirations. “There is no European decision without Hungary,” he said.
“A year ago, the question was whether we wanted to die for Ukraine. Now it is whether we want to be bankrupted by its accession,” Orbán said, urging “my dear friends” to respond to the government’s public survey on the question.
Quoting Ferenc Deák, the justice minister of the first Hungarian government during the freedom fight, Orbán added that, “We may risk everything for the homeland, but we must not risk the homeland for anything.”
“Europe jumped head-first into the Russia-Ukraine war,” he claimed.
“We must not cause greater harm than what we want to prevent, and we cannot help anyone if we ruin our own homeland. So we did not jump in with them but stayed on the side of peace,” he said.
Orban said the “empire” wanted to colonise Ukraine rather than helping it. “War is a tool of colonisation,” he added.
Regarding the 1848 revolution, Orban said: “The idea of Hungarian freedom is timeless and eternal.”
The prime minister said that 177 years ago this day, the ideal of Hungarian freedom “took shape, was embodied and came to walk among us; March 15 remains a special day for all generations of Hungarians…”
Orbán also noted that “In 1848, they said the future belonged to the shining empire in Vienna; in 1956 they said that the future belonged to the red Soviet empire; and now they’re saying that the future belongs to the rainbow-coloured worldwide empire.”
“But there was a turnabout across the [Atlantic], and it turns out that we are the future; that the future does not belong to empires but to patriots and independent nations,” Orban said.
“It has also been said that we’re isolated,” Orbán said. “They said that in 1848, too. Then, the whole of Europe was abuzz with Hungarians, even the revolutionary forces in Vienna was led by a citizen of Buda.”
“They said the same thing in 1956, then Hungary was the first to knock a brick out of the Berlin wall, which brought freedom for the whole of Europe.”
“They are saying now that we are isolated, and yet now, everyone is curious about us,” he said.
Orbán said freedom was the “natural element” of Hungarians. “Hungarians are in their element when fighting for their freedom. We are freedom fighters: we know how to obtain and preserve freedom.”
“This knowledge is ours, we have been amassing it for a thousand years … this is what the world needs now more than ever,” he added.
Recently, “we have stayed on our feet in the face of a world empire… We have the secret, the alchemy of the modern era. That is why half the world is coming to us, from Vienna to Washington,” Orban said.
“Our fight for freedom, like in 1848, is not just a matter for Hungarians,” he said. “Today’s fight is in fact for the soul of the Western world.”
“The empire wants to mix the indigenous inhabitants of Europe with invading masses from a foreign civilisation and then replace them,” Orbán said. He added that “the empire” also sought to drive “our children and grandchildren away from a healthy” way of life towards “the chaos of unnatural lifestyles” and “kick away the order and culture of Christian life”.
“It wants us to serve the gods of war instead of peace,” he declared.
Orban said the Western world was being wrecked by “the imperial machine”. “But we’ve managed to stop this at the borders of Hungary,” he said. “We haven’t given up.”
“We haven’t allowed them to occupy the country, parliament or the government, either,” he said, adding that for 15 years “all their weapons” of “blackmail, threats, mercenaries, and Brussels” targeting Hungary had not succeeded in undermining it.
“We have won four elections in a row, and our lines of defence have not been eroded in fifteen years,” the prime minister added.
He said that perseverance was due to the conviction “that the wind would change at some point”. “And the wind has changed, patriots of the western world have become stronger … and after Italy, the Netherlands and Austria, they won in the US, too. We are flying in formation, and we are winning in the fight for the soul of the western world,” he said.
The PM noted that Hungary was proud to have been in “the vanguard, the initiator of this worldwide freedom fight, and that we were the trailblazers.”
“Glory to all Hungarians who didn’t back down in the face of the Soros empire, who didn’t bend the knee to Brussels, who didn’t bow to the liberal empire in the U.S.,” he said.
“The Hungarian flag is still flying proudly today. We can account [for our actions] to our children and grandchildren. We have much to continue pursuing,” Orban said.
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