The 20th of August is Hungary’s founding king St. Stephen‘s Day. It’s also the day of the Foundation of Hungary and “the day of the new bread”. St. Stephen (Szent István király ) who was born in about 975 and he died on the 15th of August, 1038, led Hungary into the Christian church and he established the institutions of a feudal kingdom and of the church. He was canonized on the 20th of August, 1083 and therefore the 20th of August is his feast day in Hungary.
This Hungarian public holiday is always celebrated with a half-hour fireworks display on the banks of the Danube in the evening. Watch this year’s spectacular fireworks below. The music was made for this occasion by Ghymes.
Yesterday we could learn from “Reporters without Borders”, a so-called NGO which is similar to Amnesty International and Transparency International, that ” one of Hungary’s last critical media outlets were taken over by Orban allies”. RwB is also a domestic pet of spin doctor George Soros and yes, Hír TV became pro-government, pro-Orbán on Wednesday after a change of ownership indeed. So the RwB statement was wailing a lot about Orban’s authoritarian regime which suppresses free media and they were describing the horrors how liberal media dominatrix Olga Kálmán was fired in an astonishing single day U-turn, etc. All right, this is no news. Business as usual.
What perhaps still should make news is that these Champions of Media Freedom and Shining Beacon of Truth have simply failed to mention the following:
Hír TV was established in 2002 when Orbán’s first government lost the elections and his Fidesz party was practically left without any media at all in order to convey their political messages. Responding to Fidesz complaints that the public TV channel became absolutely biased towards the left-liberal government’s agenda, Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy answered: “If you need a TV channel then buy one for yourself”.
Hír TV was much ridiculed and then shunned by the left-liberals but it become a leading news channel quite soon. It was undoubtedly pro-Fidesz, pro-Orbán … until “G-Day”, the 6th of February, 2015 when Lajos Simicska, a rich businessman and a former close friend of PM Orbán, the owner of Hír TV, fell out with Orbán and he swore revenge against Orbán. “I’m going to fire every orbanist!”, he cried on that day … and he did so. After a series of resignations and firing lots of employees, Hír TV turned into “free media” from “Orbán’s fascist propaganda tool” practically overnight.
However Simicska gave up his berserk anti-Orbán campaign after Orbán’s third landslide election this April. He has shut down the daily Magyar Nemzet, which he had also turned into an anti-Orbán propaganda tool, that is “free media” in left-liberal parlance, from a right-wing conservative newspaper. Now he has sold Hír TV, too, and the old crew and management have been reinstated by the new owners.
So there wasn’t a single word about this side of the story in the statement made by Reporters Without Borders. Reporters Without Borders should be renamed Rapporteurs Without Borders.
Once upon a time, there was a Communist state party in Hungary which was called Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, that is MSZMP for short in Hungarian. This party served Hungary’s Soviet occupiers from 1956 until 1989. The Soviet Communist party journal was called “Pravda” in those times. This means “truth” in Russian. It went without saying that Pravda was writing about anything but the truth.
MSZMP dropped their M for “munkás” (“worker”) in 1989, so they became democratic, pro-Western, pro-market economy, pro-human rights, progressive tolerant, anti-racist and whatever. This Hungarian Socialist Party was defending democracy from Fascists and Nazis in unison with the even more progressive, even more anti-racist, pro-homosexuality, etc., so very ‘liberal’ Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ), whose long serving party president Gábor Kuncze was a “díszgój” by the very words of these very free democrats. “Gój” (goyim) means “gentile” and “dísz” means “ornament, decoration”. Perhaps “figurehead” is the best translation in this context. Suffice it to say that accusations of “anti-Semitism” was their main political weapon of choice. Shortly after the MSZP-SZSZ block drove the Hungarian economy into the ground in 2008, the Hungarian Socialists replaced their prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsány, with a certain Gordon Bajnai. Mr. Bajnai led the country until 2010 when Fidesz wiped these “progressive forces” out from power in their first landslide election victory. SZDSZ dissolved itself and left a big public debt behind. Bajnai announced he would quit politics.
He did so… for about three years while he was hiding in the USA and he was being trained by the Soros-Clinton cabal. Then he returned to Hungary and he founded a party called “Együtt Magyarországért” (Together for Hungary). However the MSZP-SZDSZ remnants got yet another huge beating from the Hungarian electorate in 2014. Bajnai disappeared again, now apparently for good, and his party soon started dwindling. They winded up after their crushing election defeat this year. To cut a long story short, MSZP ran a certain Gergely Karácsony as their prime minister candidate for the 2018 election campaign and Karácsony was an outsider from this small party group “Együtt-PM”. Karácsony was a mayor in a Budapest district. Since mayors cannot be MPs, too, in Hungary, Mr. Karácsony decided to keep his job and he handed his MP party mandate over to a certain Olivio Kocsis-Cake. Kocsis-Cake was heralded as “Hungary’s first Black MP” and that was only about the only thing we could hear about him so far.
Olivio Kocsis-Cake holds a sign “I have been working for Uncle Georgie”. (George Soros)
In fact he still seems to work for him.
Now Mr. Olivio Kocsis-Cake has made his political debut. He gave an interview to BBC a few days ago and he said that
I’m a historian and I haven’t understood so far what happened in Germany in the 1930’s and how Hitler could get full control. … Now I’m getting to understand this. … So there is a fear that the same will happen in Hungary as in the 1930’s in Germay.
The linked BBC video illustrates Kocsis-Cake words with sinister images of the paramilitary group Magyar Gárda … which was founded by Jobbik under the pre-2010 MSZP-SZDSZ government. A selection of short interviews with opposition Jobbik politicians and Jobbik supporters also serve the BBC agenda. As my readers may know, Jobbik became a de facto ally to Mr. Kocsis-Cake’s political side, that is the MSZP-SZDSZ remnants, in the 2018 election campaign. Another thing what BBC “forgot” to mention that Magyar Gárda was disbanded almost ten years ago.
The BBC’s playing the anti-Semite card against Hungary and the Hungarian government has acquired a particularly interesting perspective now. It was less than two weeks ago when PM Orbán paid a state visit to Israel and Israeli PM Netanjahu was speaking very highly of him and Hungary.
The Orbán government, with the support of Fidesz-led Budapest city council and István Tarlós, Budapest’s Fidesz-nominated chief mayor, has been rebuilding “Liget”. As BBC put it, this is one of the oldest parks in Europe and I would add that it’s a bit like the Central Park for New York. Leftist-liberal “environmentalist’ groups have been protesting against this grand project for a long time. They were chaining themselves to caterpillars and trees in the usual way, etc. They made good pictures to illustrate all those articles and reports in the global media about “Fascist Hungary”.
A tree which couldn’t be saved even by a left-liberal freedom fighter.
The Liget project was short-listed in Cannes last year among the “Oscard Awards of property development” in the category “Best Futura Mega Project”. That didn’t bother these Soros-networked groups, of course.
Today’s news is that the “Liget’s Defenders”, as they called themselves, have abandoned their tents. Having closed the “Open Society Fund” office in Budapest, now I suppose Mr. Soros has pulled the plug on these tree-huggers, too.
To mark this cheerful event, let’s watch this “before and after” video:
What is the significance of the Hungarian election for the world?
Five years ago, well before the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015, I posted about the Orbanization of Europe and the “Hungarian disease”. That was when it became obvious that the “Politically Correct liberal” status quo in the world is being threatened and Hungary could be in the very epicentre of the global change which could destroy PC-liberalism.
Then came 2015 when, using the words of the left-liberal political site Politico, which named PM Orban as Number One among those “who are shaping, shaking and stirring Europe”, and Hungary really started “punching above her weight”, using their words again.
Foreign Policy, an influential American neolib/con journal wrote this in 2016:
Orban’s populist intuition has enabled him to set the political agenda far beyond Hungary. Despite being one of the EU’s newer and poorer members, his country has punched above its weight.
Then this global political change reached the USA and President Trump was elected last year. Viktor Orbán was the only Western leader who endorsed Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton. If you look at the comment sections of neolib-neocon media like The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Yahoo, The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, etc. then you will see that a very significant number of their readers sharply reject the false picture their articles draw about Hungary and PM Orbán. I would risk to say even that PM Orbán has reached a kind of political stardom in the West.
“Look East“, suggested a leading French journalist and political thinker in the influential French newspaper Le Figaro a few days ago.
Orbán has invented the theory of illiberalism which he contrasted with liberalism but not with market economy. … This confrontation between liberalism and illiberalism, between ‘the rule of law’ and democracy, will be the main controversy in Europe. … The theory of illiberalism, which was born in Hungary, has spread all over Central Europe… and this Hungarian theory may be the big chance for the French Right as well.
As far as Hungarian domestic politics is concerned, with his third landslide election victory, Orbán has become the most successful Hungarian politician of all times. Only the political record of PM István Tisza from the early 20th century comes close but Tisza certainly didn’t make an impact in international politics.
One could definitely conclude almost five years after that blog post that Europe is being “Orbanized” undoubtedly and the “Hungarian disease” is spreading indeed. Actually it’s spreading even outside Europe. 🙂
What is even more encouraging is that the Orbán’s reply to his spectacular political success was Soli Deo gloria.
John O’Sullivan, the president of the Budapest-base conservative-classical liberal Danube Institute and a director of the Washington think-tank, 21st Century Initiatives, analysed very well why Fidesz-KDNP could achieve what hardly anybody had expected: a third landslide victory, that is yet another super-majority.
the economic success of Orbán’s government
the voters’ agreement with Orban’s opposition to mass migration
their admiration for Orbán’s personal leadership qualities
So what happened since last Sunday? Well, with the exception of loony ex-Socialist PM Ferenc Gyurcsány who drove Hungary’s economy into the ground in 2008, every opposition party leader has resigned.
Then there was a rather big demonstration in Budapest yesterday evening. Protesting the results of a high turnout, free parliamentary election, Jobbik’s activists walked hand-in-hand with rainbow-coloured mental cases, George Soros’ sympathizers, with all those who used to refer to Jobbik as “Nazi” in every sentence they said about them, with those left-liberals who never fail to call themselves “democrats” . The organizers promised more demonstrations demanding a “fair election system” and new elections. So there will be at least yet another one next week. Incidentally, there had been serious worries that the Antifa thugs, who set Hamburg on fire last summer, would turn up at this rally and the Hungarian police and secret services took all sort of measures to protect the country.
The global media (BBC, The Washington Post, etc. , practically all the usual suspects!) were very excited, of course, and they devoted a lot of space to yesterday’s anti-Orbán rally. Certainly there wasn’t so much global media attention on the pro-Orbán rally before the elections which was actually much bigger.
George Soros, Senator Palpatine (Darth Sidious, the Emperor) of our times, is going to have talks with top EU officials in Brussels on Monday, the globalist media is going to keep trying to de-legitimize the fourth Orbán government and there will be a couple of more demonstrations against the will of the Hungarian people as well. All in all, Hungary won a very important battle on the 8th of April but the war is far from being over.
I never thought this would be possible but it seems PM Orban’s Fidesz-KDNP has won the third supermajority (two thirds of the seats)! It’s a huge victory indeed.
Orbán’s victory speech was succinct. He simply thanked the Hungarian voters for the very high turnout, he thanked his supporters, the party activists’ work and his wife personally. Then he said “Soli Deo gloria” (“Glory to God alone” in Latin). (Yes, he is Protestant).
He gave an interview to Echo TV shortly after the speech:
We’re not against Europe and the European Union. We do want Europe and we do want the European Union. We want a successful and strong European Union. To this end, we must speak up first and we must tell everything frankly what we don’t like.. …
Hungary doesn’t want to commit those mistakes which other countries, richer and more powerful than us, have committed. We don’t want Europe to be ruined because of these mistakes. We want to rectify these mistakes. Hungary, with her full weight, is ready to take part in this common European work.”
The city of Székesfehérvár was a Hungarian royal residence and it played an important role in Hungary’s history: our first kings were crowned and buried here. Székesfehérvár has recently applied to become “The European Capital of Culture” for 2023.
The city council had this promotional film made for the jury:
The application has been rejected. As mayor Dr. András Cser-Palkovics recalled on a press conference after the hearing that the jury objected on the grounds that “there were too many happy white people and crosses and not enough migrants” (in the film featuring Székesfehérvár) . Here is a link to the Hungarian language web page of Székesfehérvár and here is an English language summary from elsewhere.
So this is where we stand in 2018. The European Union has let the cat out of the bag. Their favoured cat is anything but white.
Politics in Hungary 