Today's heirs of the 1948 national guards are doctors, nurses, scientists, law enforcement workers, tens and hundreds of thousands of people who go to work every day despite the risk of infection and are good at their profession, highlighted Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in his celebratory address on March 15.
"Dear Compatriots! Every year on this day, red-white-green cockades are displayed everywhere where Hungarians live. It is announced that we remember our heroes with pride and with our heads held high, who lit the flame of Hungarian freedom in the spring of 1848, which has been shining in Europe ever since, since it has been nurtured by millions of Hungarians from here and beyond the Carpathians from generation to generation," Viktor Orbán began his writing.
He put it this way: "We, the Hungarians, learned what we know about freedom in the grip of the enemy powers that attacked us, fighting on the battlefields and remembering the places where our heroes lost their lives. We have learned that freedom is not an ideology, but our blood-earned right to use our language, to cherish our exceptional heritage, and to organize our lives according to our own wisdom.”
According to the Prime Minister, the events that took place 173 years ago "tell us today that the change of our common destiny for the better is always in the hands of those who know, want and dare to do something for the uplifting of the Hungarian nation. We must stand with this faith and courage even now, when we are fighting renewed waves of attacks from an invisible enemy," he wrote.
Viktor Orbán highlighted: today's heirs of the '48 national guards are doctors, nurses, scientists, law enforcement workers, tens and hundreds of thousands of people who go to work every day despite the danger of infection and stand up to their profession. Warriors who fight tirelessly throughout this long campaign so that we can get our lives back and, after the virus has passed, continue to build the common home of all Hungarians, the Carpathian Basin, together with the other peoples who live with us.
"Allow me to respectfully greet you on the day of the birth of Hungarian freedom, hoping that despite the current, unusual circumstances, we can remember together in spirit. Hungary above all, God above all of us! Long live Hungarian freedom, long live the homeland!" - concluded the Prime Minister's festive letter.
Photo: MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office
