Hungarians and Poles are the inseparable historical twins of Central Europe in their desire for freedom - said the President of the Parliament at the online commemoration of the Civil Solidarity Forum - Civil Solidarity Foundation (CÖF-CÖKA) and Polish civilians on March 15.
László Kövér emphasized: freedom-loving Hungarian and Polish citizens still feel and know which side they are on. Against the disgrace of anti-nationalism, anti-family and anti-Christianity, "we are still on the same side," he said.
The Speaker of the House added: "the sacrifice of our freedom fighter predecessors and the belief in freedom of our children and grandchildren compels us" to "protect our nations, our families and our Christian faith, as well as our European and national culture rooted in Christianity" against those efforts that "a nihilistic ideology is aggressive" by spreading it, they are trying to "disintegrate our societies and their natural components, families".
"Shall we be prisoners or free?" - quoted Sándor Petőfi's poem, adding that this question is pointed out by history to the sons and daughters of all nations in every historical era. The Hungarians gave their answer in 1848: they wanted to be free, and that's why they created freedom for themselves.
In 1848, freedom meant national self-awareness, a democratic, independent and self-determining state based on popular representation, as well as social justice, and it means exactly the same today in Hungary and Poland.
In 2021, "the word of the members of the vigorous and freedom-loving Hungarian and Polish nation" - calling on the words of Sándor Petőfi - says: "We swear to the God of Hungarians and Poles that we will not be prisoners again!" - said László Kövér.
Our people are once again threatened by imperial ideas
László Csizmadia , the founding president of CÖF-CÖKA, spoke about how "while we remember our common heroes and martyrs, we can feel that our peoples are once again threatened by imperial ideas".
The enemy attacks from two directions, from within and without, threatening "our freedom, independence and Christianity..." he said.
The Hungarian and Polish ultra-liberal opposition has become a minion of Brussels and is sacrificing its nation on the altar of the "sick imperial ideas of the United States of Europe" for the sake of "promised guarantor roles", he opined.
László Csizmadia also touched on the fact that Fidesz, which left the European Parliament faction of the European People's Party, could be the initiator of a "new, Christian-democratic, conservative union of national value and interest" in the EU.
We can still cooperate today with full confidence
Jerzy Snopek , Poland's ambassador to Budapest, reminded us: the freedom struggle of 1848-49 became an example of heroism and love of freedom for the whole world, and joint struggles were the pillars of the centuries-old friendship between the Polish and Hungarian people.
He recalled: during the War of Independence, thousands of young Polish people rushed to the aid of their Hungarian friends, more than four thousand legionnaires and home guards fought on the side of the Hungarians.
He added that many other examples of Polish-Hungarian solidarity are based on the fact that "even today we can cooperate with complete trust".
No epidemic can prevent friendship between two peoples
Tomasz Sakiewicz , the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Polska, emphasized: although there was no way to celebrate together in the last two years, no epidemic or border can prevent the friendship and alliance between Hungarians and Poles. The two peoples equally love freedom, for which they have paid the same great price over the centuries. They love their people and their country in the same way and they don't let "crazy left-wing ideologies" tear their dreams apart.
MTI
