In left-wing cities and districts, cultural institutions and events are gradually being squeezed out.

The support of several cultural institutions was terminated by the VIII. district municipality since the reign of András Pikó. "I asked the manager of Józsefváros Közösségeiért Nonprofit Zrt., which is owned by the municipality, to inform the employees of the Józsefváros Gallery, the H13 Entrepreneurship Center and the district Flag Museum that the municipality will not be able to support their operations in 2021," András Pikó wrote on his social media page at the time .

This is how the mayor of the eighth district announced this winter that the municipality will close three cultural institutions that have been operating in the district for years.

After such precedents, Péter Fekete, the state secretary responsible for culture, announced on Thursday that the Flag Museum will be saved, and that the material from the collection closed by the Józsefváros municipality will be accepted by the Hungarian Trade and Catering Museum (MKVM). He added: In January, he received the letter asking for help, which said that a museum with a thirty-year history would be closed by the opposition-led VIII. district municipality. They quickly started looking for the right place for the treasures accumulated over many decades of collecting work. The work was successful,

the material of the Flag Museum was transferred to the MKVM, where expert hands take care of it

he added.

Máté Kocsis , Fidesz faction leader and former mayor of Józsefváros, emphasized that the VIII. in the district municipality, "a conscious downsizing of culture is taking place" today: for example, the closing of Józsefváros' three cultural institutions - the Józsefvárosi Gallery and the H13 Youth Center - in addition to the Flag Museum, was timed to coincide with Hungarian Culture Day.

Róbert Török , the director of the MKVM, told MTI that they will soon begin the inventory and scientific processing of the Flag Museum's material, after which the pieces of the collection will be presented to the public in their temporary exhibitions and on other surfaces.

Cultural institutions are not important for the left-wing leadership

The VIII. a situation similar to that of the district also occurred in Erzsébetváros, led by Péter Niedermüller from the South.

The Gyurcsányist mayor is using all the means at his disposal to drive away the Antal Molnár Music School, and he previously drove the 100-member gypsy band out of the district.

Instead of music school students, Niedermüller would have liked to see the freeSZFE Association founded by those who caused a scandal in the case of the University of Theater and Film.

The DK politician recently made headlines by saying that he thought it was better to be Irish in Budapest during the Irish-Hungarian match, because the Hungarian team did not kneel on the pitch. This was not the only outrageous trait of the Gyurcsányist mayor, he was also the one who called white, heterosexual, Christian people terrifying creatures.

But it is not only in Budapest that the concept of culture is interpreted in a particular way. As we reported earlier, the Night of the Museums in Szentes became scandalous when a less cultural, but all the more scandalous, event was held at the County Conference and Cultural Center.

The left-wing leadership in the city organized an erotic show instead of the long-ago Night of Museums.

Source: hirado.hu

Photo: jozsefvaros.hu