March 15th is such a holy holiday of Hungarian freedom, Hungarians' love of freedom, that it is almost unimaginable without the spring "outpouring" of people with smiling faces, without a joint tour of the cultic routes of Pest and Buda, from which even the Rákosi-Kádár-Gyurcsány system could not push people out. The "small circles of freedom" overflowed at this time, the souls clung to each other like water drops, which together rock the gentle ships like the sea, but crush the galleys to dust! The Poles, whose ancestors gave their lives for their Hungarian brothers in 1948-49, always come to the holiday with their flags as a sign of eternal friendship.
That March forty-eight went down in history as the ethos of every Hungarian revolution. "Respect this day, on which the voice of the people was first spoken. The freedom of the Hungarian nation begins from this day," Jókai writes a few days later. 173 years ago, on the morning of March 14, 1848, the 48-year-old Józsefe Irinyi and Mór Jókai summed up and put into shape the 12 points in Pilvax, which caused the council of governors to shudder. Petőfi had already finished his famous poem, just as Júlia Szendrey sewed the cockade on his coat, so that the next day - on that rainy Wednesday morning, the poet could recite the National Anthem over his heart with the symbol of national unity that has been preserved ever since. He was followed in 1956 by Imre Sinkovits in front of the poet's statue, and on March 15, 1989 by András Sinkovits-Vitay to the cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands. This is what our revolutions have become for us. They are smiling, affectionate, the air of liberation filled their lungs! Let's remember the images of Filmhírádó, as on October 23, 1956, happy people marching peacefully through the streets holding each other's arms, or 1989, when György Cserhalmi in front of Hungarian Television, which was symbolically reserved for the nation by the poet Dénes Csengey in the name of freedom of the press, sang the new twelve points. Still, even then, the main demands of 1848 echoed back from it. This spirited crowd of almost half a million demonstrated peacefully in 2011, during the Peace March, when the financial powers wanted to overthrow the new Hungarian government of Orbán.
But if we were attacked, we could fight back or die as heroes, "washing away the disgrace", showing the world that "freedom is such a big thing" for us.
Unfortunately, we can't walk holding hands towards the Museum Garden now. Now is not the time. Some infinitely "intelligent" virus is destroying our everyday life, the whole country is in the midst of this struggle. Doctors and nurses fight for the lives of our loved ones day after day, we try to keep a disciplined distance from each other. We are separated in body, but we are united in spirit, and now the nation wants us to regain our freedom even against the virus, to help each other in times of great trouble - clinging together again in spirit. Today, it is the wearing of masks and the vaccination that makes it possible to show, hopefully next March, to the galley owners of the world again that "water is the master!"
