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our air is getting thinner. It does happen here, in this corner of
Europe. But this is exactly the kind of force that should be
handled differently. It should be handled differently for the sake
of real unity. A typical example of national consciousness and
solidarity is the fact that an eviscerated country could vote a
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political party into power with overwhelming numbers (2010),
thus making an unpaired example in the history of democracy
and generating hope and pattern. To use such opportunities is a
necessity. The oppositional political force, too, is given a
chance now to learn their country.
Certain people and interests incorrectly and deceitfully claim
that Hungary bent its knee, which cannot be straightened
anytime soon. Bigmouthed people, who fraud our history,
verify their mental imbecility with a whole line of follies when
claiming such things, only to serve their interests. The only
thing they prove is how shallow and insignificant their
connections are to their mother country.
The West was not yet ready in 1956 to help Hungary out, that
is, to make it part of their sphere of influence. Even if the
Hungarian revolution had won, it was not sure that this would
have served the interests of Western countries, despite that it
would have rewritten a lot in Europe’s after-WWII history. The
division of territories was still freshly accepted, the balance of
power in the world was still undecided, and the Soviet Union
was strong too. The Hungarian revolution showed it first that it
was evincible. To separate Hungary from the Mid-European
block was not an intention of the West yet. They handled

14 Giving two thirds of power to one party. The 2010 national elections, when the
governing political party, FIDESZ (Hungarian Civic Allience) was elected for the
second time, after governing the country briefly between 1998 and 2002. Preceding the
2010 elections, the leading political force was MSZP (Hungarian Socialist Party), which
is the successor of Kádár’s communist/socialist party and was highly criticized during
its time in government, due to the controversial actions of its head at the time. For
instance, parts of his speech were leaked from a congress meeting in 2006, referred to as
the “Őszöd Speech,” in which he said, literally quoted, that they “fucked it up,”
admitting that they lied ever since 2002 and stole whatever they could, thus eviscerating
the country.

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