In addition to the obvious fact that Mr. Pachner cannot and will not be the director responsible for online content of Austrian Radio and Television for a long time after his dishonorable post, which deeply outrages all people of good taste, allow me a few thoughts.
I'm a doctor, but you don't have to be a doctor to feel how shameful it is to wish another person an illness and the worst possible outcome.
The fact that someone does this to the freely elected Prime Minister of our country is already a diplomatic scandal, and I am glad to read the quick reaction of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Yes, it is a disgrace to the entire country that anyone dares to write about the country's leader like that.
We reject this tone, we deeply condemn this kind of expression, and this is exactly the mentality that shows the antipathy of some people towards Hungary and its prime minister. And we can imagine how objective the television can be, whose director talks about us like this...
Yes, Mr. Pachner, you have insulted the entire country.
He insulted Hungary with his sexless attack on our Prime Minister, but he insulted me, as a Hungarian, along with my compatriots, with his unjust, arrogant sentence, in which he calls the country and the Hungarians in it ungrateful (undankbare) and thoughtless (gedanklose). You know, about us Hungarians, like all nations, a lot of good and a lot of bad can be said. But we can hardly be accused of ingratitude. There is a statue of Duke Jenő of Savoy in Buda Castle, because we think of him with gratitude as the expeller of the Turks. On the wall of the medical university in Budapest, where I also graduated, there is an inscription in Latin and Hungarian, with which we express our gratitude to Mária Terézia, the founder of our university. Many statues were inaugurated in honor of the empress, and a triumphal arch was erected in Vácott.
You know, in the field of Heroes, originally Ferdinand I, III. Charles, II. Statues of Emperor and Empress Lipót, Mária Theresa and Ferenc József stood because we are grateful to those we find worthy. These statues were removed by the communists, who, by the way, would have dismantled the entire sculpture composition, due to excessive patriotism.
But among our countless other grateful moments, we can mention the cult of Ssiszi at the time, or the generosity with which Emperor Franz Josef, who crushed the freedom struggle, was transformed into a "Ferencjóska".
I won't list any more. You know, we Hungarians are traditionally generous and hospitable.
Although reviewing the history of Austrian-Hungarian coexistence going back several centuries and analyzing the duality of this relationship is a historian's task, let me remind you of the events when Hungary and the Hungarians came to Austria's aid. In 1740, we offered Maria Theresa vitam et sanguinem, our life and blood, and she owes it to the Hungarian nobility that she was able to keep her crown. He was grateful to us for that all his life. Millions of Hungarian soldiers fought alongside Austria from the War of the Austrian Succession through the Napoleonic Wars to the First World War. Have you ever expressed gratitude for this? Are there statues of Hungarian soldiers in Vienna?
And you also call us thoughtless, which obviously indicates your inherent pride, but if we were thoughtless, it also shows in the way we fought for the common monarchy to the end. Only for us Hungarians, honor has always been important.
Do you know this feeling, on the basis of which he is now formulating his resignation...
dr. György Temesszentandrasi
the author is the chief physician of the department
Photo source: Karl Pachner's Facebook page
