According to the Jászai Mari award-winning actor Zoltán Rátóti, the fall of 2006 with tear gas and horse attacks was a street demonstration of lawlessness in the heart of Europe.
The autumn speech of 2006 is still with us today. More precisely, many people try to cover it up and reframe it, but a good part of the Hungarian people does not forget. Moreover, because we do not interpret the speech itself, but the government's performance that preceded it and the tragic and sad events that followed - the actor told hirado.hu, who believes that the legitimate the conflation of civil protest and riots is an attempt at reframing that amounts to a falsification of the past.
Even today, we encounter this every day, but most of us still remember armed forces without identification, and a disintegrated, demoralized government that escapes into lies and substitute actions. The fall of 2006, with tear gas and horse attacks, was a street demonstration of lawlessness in the heart of Europe.
The prime minister who led it, bathed in power narcissism, was removed from the forefront of Hungarian politics after a long period of bribery. Today we can witness that the past is coming back - said Zoltán Rátóti, and like many others, he remembers exactly the circumstances under which he heard the Ószöd speech .
Although a surprising debate later arose around the interpretation of the speech - some intellectuals interpreted what was said at Őszöd as a truth speech - I immediately heard from the recording that we had reached a turning point. At the time, of course, the consequences were unforeseeable, but I felt that it was extraordinary, perhaps not an exaggeration: we were living through a moment that represented a change of era. The current Hungarian Prime Minister must radiate dignity, because he is not a private person, but represents all of us - pointed out the Jászai Mari Award-winning actor, who did not consider the rough and ordinary tone of the speech to be the most offensive even then, but the content of it.
The second part of the statement has become a catchphrase, even though the first half is the really dramatic one:
"I almost died that for a year and a half we had to act as if we were governing. Instead we lied morning, night and night."
For example, why didn't that confession make waves in Europe when he talked about:
"You can't say a significant government measure that we can be proud of, beyond the fact that we brought the government back from the b*tch to the end. Nothing. If we have to account to the country for what we did in four years, then what do we say?"
As we know: nothing. Just as we have never heard a more exclusionary speech by the prime minister:
"I was able to do the last year and a half personally because I was ambitious and fueled by one thing: to restore the left's faith that it can do it, that it can win."
Can the prime minister representing the nation speak only to the left? Hardly. The rest: obscenity, self-indulgence, prophetic role - it's just a matter of style. It's true, the style is the person himself - he concluded his thoughts.
Photo: Árpád Kurucz
