October 23 is approaching, the XX. 65th anniversary of one of the most glorious days of the 20th century. This year, the Peace March will be held on this holiday after two years. 888.hu asked writer and publicist Zsolt Bayer about this.
888.hu: Compared to the previous ones, does this year's Peace March have a new, prominent message?
Zsolt Bayer: Every Peace March had some kind of important and relevant message in the given situation. The first was "we will not be a colony". That was a pretty strong formulation of the situation at the time. We organized the Peace March, and it was an unexpected success. The current one also has, if you like, a strong and tough message stemming from a daily reality. And that is that we know who you are and we will never ask you again. It cannot be stated more clearly that we understand and know that person. This man is Ferenc Gyurcsány.
We understand this, we see this, and we are not willing to tolerate this without saying a word.
888.hu: This year's Peace March also reminds of two sad anniversaries.
The revolution of '56 and the police terror of 2006. How does it reflect the attitude of the left that fifteen years ago, on the fiftieth anniversary of the events of '56, the movements were drowned in blood again?
Zsolt Bayer: In 2006, the fact that everything happened on October 23 was a strong enough message in itself. In 2006, the grandson and husband of a leftist – I would even go a little further – a man who played a decisive role in the bloodbath and reprisals of the '56 revolution were able to do what he did. The Hungarian left cannot do anything about October 23, and will not know until it clearly and with eternal validity denies everything that happened in this country in the 20th century. they cultivated in the century. Until that happens, until Klara Dobrev has so much to say about her own grandfather that he was my grandfather and he's so cute, there's nothing to talk about.
That's why October 23rd will never be their holiday.
888.hu: We already have the route of the Peace Procession, which goes along the sites of the Gyucsány terror attack. What does this say to the left?
Zsolt Bayer: That we know who you are and that we will not forget what you dared to do to us and this country in 2006. You have to live with this until the end of time. And we will always push your noses into it.
888.hu: You previously wrote in Magyar Nemzet that perhaps
the march would start from the American embassy, but this idea was eventually discarded.
Zsolt Bayer: I didn't write this by accident. Today, the situation is that Washington is becoming the new Moscow, and I find it difficult to bear this. Then I could very well have imagined that we would go to the American embassy, anyway, the fact that the Hungarian nation is protesting there would have a pretty strong message. By the way, today's America and its embassy could be awarded this award, but obviously it can't be done for a thousand reasons. We gather at the University of Technology and start from there, it's better that way.
888.hu: There was a journalist who evaluated this year's Peace March as an expression of fear of Gyurcsány. Do the Hungarian people have anything to realistically fear from Gyurcsány?
Zsolt Bayer: The Hungarian people have only real things to fear from Gyurcsány. It is said that the collective memory of society when it comes to daily politics is about like a goldfish: 8-10 seconds. I think this can be expanded a bit. Anyone can recall what they were capable of in power during their reign. Far beyond the police terror of 2006, how they economically crippled this country, what they were able to do, starting with the foreign currency loans, up to the point where Ferenc Gyurcsány announced to his people with noble simplicity that children, we have cured this, not a little, but a lot.
Yes, they always screw it up, not a little, but a lot.
As Margaret Thatcher said, the trouble with a communist is that he always runs out of other people's money. They can do this, they suck it up, they raise taxes sky high, they destroy the middle class, whoever has something, they lose it, they think about aid, they distribute it without reason, then when it runs out, they throw up their hands and say: hmm, we suck it up. After that, a right-wing government will come, which will put things in order, do things, make the country prosperous, and then they will come back again. This vicious cycle must be stopped. The Prime Minister once said that they will never be able to destroy the country so much that we cannot rebuild it, since we love this country.
But who the hell wants to start over and over again? Wouldn't it be easier to preserve what we have built and to develop it further?
