Wonderful, uplifting, soul-warming - one could list the adjectives until we run out of them. It was predictable that, as always, many people would join the Peace March, but even more people came from here and beyond our borders.
Old people and young people came, families with children, new mothers pushing their offspring in strollers, their hopes for the future still unclear today. People from Budapest and the countryside came, our compatriots from Transylvania, Highlands, Subcarpathia and Vojvodina, our Polish brothers and our Italian friends, but also Hungarians from overseas, the USA and Canada. They came to show the strength of togetherness, how important the fate of the homeland and the nation is to them. They came to pay tribute to the memory of the martyrs of 1956, and they came to say: no more terror in Gyurcsány!
Many hundreds of thousands came, they marched cheerfully and peacefully, in the sure knowledge that they are not alone, that we will be able to protect our freedom and independence, since we have one will and one goal. To maintain all that we have achieved in the last 11 and a half years.
As early as one o'clock in the afternoon, the crowd filled the Műyetem wharf, and they just kept coming...
It has become a cliché about the Peace Marches that "more people than expected", but this is not true now. did expect that at the call of the largest civil society organization, CÖF-CÖKA, many hundreds of thousands of people would mobilize , putting their faith in the civil side, rejecting the anti-human neoliberal mask, the aggressive attacks from Brussels against our country.
Meanwhile, "over there", at the end of Hősök tere, at the demonstration organized by the opposition leader, barely a few thousand people were lounging around, and their speakers tried to incite them with little enthusiasm (presumably having lost their temper at the sight of the "large crowd"). In the spirit of Márki-Zay love - full of hate.
Where was the Christmas 99 percent?
On the Peace March.
