Historian Mária Schmidt, director of the House of Terror, accompanied Viktor Orbán to the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev in the past few days, and they paid their respects together with the prime minister. Viktor Orbán was the only one who attended the ceremony as the number one state leader. In yesterday's post, Mária Schmidt condemns those who were ungratefully not present in the moments of mourning, primarily the Germans. He writes: “Ungrateful and shameless! Mut verloren, alles verloren, When courage is lost, everything is lost!
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union, who was also the last President of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91.
His funeral was held on September 3, 2022 in Moscow at the Novogeevich cemetery, where his wife is buried. The Russian state did not organize an official state funeral for him, but he received military honors and his open coffin was placed in accordance with custom in the House of Trade Unions near Red Square.
When the number one leaders of the Soviet Union passed away, the leaders of the Western world came to their funerals trampling on each other's ankles to testify that they considered the deceased as their worthy opponents, or rather enemies, whom they respect even in their dead. However, this was not the case with Gorbachev. Gorbachev was the darling of the West while he was alive. Because it helped them to an easy victory in the Cold War. Because he made a series of unilateral gestures, trusting that the Americans and the "developed West" would reciprocate them. With a benevolent hope resembling a country naive, he withdrew his occupying troops from our region, agreed to the German unity, the NATO membership of the old and new Germany thus created. The Western top politicians took him one by one and paid for him by flattering him with their media and decorating him with the meaningless Nobel Peace Prize (1990).
His funeral on Saturday provided the best proof of how much he was disregarded, at which no foreign state leader appeared, apart from Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary. However, the Russians certainly did not organize a state funeral for the deceased, so as not to put the foreign leaders coming to the funeral in an unpleasant situation by having to meet and interact with their Russian partners. Viktor Orbán, the anti-communist freedom fighter, who on June 16, 1989, at the reburial of Imre Nagy and his fellow martyrs, publicly called on the still-intact Soviet Union to withdraw its occupying army from Hungary and allow democratic elections, bowed his head at Gorbachev's funeral and thanked him on behalf of our country and his family for not shooting, for withdrawing the Soviet troops from our country and thereby returning the freedom and independence of our country.
But no other regional or western leader has given him the final say. Neither the Americans nor the Europeans honored the deceased with their presence, whom they once considered their "hero". It is particularly striking that there was not a single German politician who expressed his gratitude to Gorbachev, without whom their country would still be divided. Obviously, because Germany no longer exists, it has no leaders. There are people who are called president, chancellor or foreign minister, but don't let that fool you. Everyone has been aware for a long time that they do not represent anyone but themselves. The day of the funeral made it clear that the Germans' new religion is cowardice. Their leaders are cowards, ungrateful, uncultured, disrespectful. They detached themselves from European culture, they are shapeless, faceless nobodys. And some Germans not only tolerate them, but also follow them.
Therefore, no one should make gestures or favors to the Germans, because they do not value them and will not reciprocate them!"
Source and image: Facebook/Mária Schmidt
