From the German word krawall, i.e. rebellion, kravall, among our partly Swabian family, roughly meant a quarrelsome upheaval, a break in relationship.

There were small fights and big ones, national ones and family ones, sometimes both together. It was also quite big when my grandfather's office in the palace district was nationalized together with his factory in Budafoki. He was a little crazy about leaving everything here behind, and thanks to his inventions, I know he rebuilt his life on the west side of Germany as a successful entrepreneur. Of course, I only found out about all this much, much later, because thanks to broken family relationships and the "human rights, left-wing freedom" of the 50s, I never got to meet him, and neither did his "enlightened" child, hoping for a bright future. .

We had different ideas about the beautiful future, and thus my life path became different. Proletarian internationalism "traveled the world" for me as well.

Hungarians usually have personal experiences within their families about the fate of those cast ashore in the drifts of history, or those who row on the "tailwater".

It became the goal of my future, one might say, to be a humane and accountable, creative being. I had to realize after many bitter experiences that a single word from the above formulation keeps in continuous activity the monstrosity that has developed into both the big and the small kraval tactics,

and this word is accounting, accountability.

When the little craval was used in family relationships, instead of forming a future-oriented agreement with a fair "accounting" before the arguments, they threw in a completely inappropriate and possibly insulting accusation out of thin air. After that, there was nothing left but to leave in both directions, and of course without any further "accounting" - and that was the point!

When there was and is a big fight - see in general in world politics - instead of fair settlements, the fight comes, the essence of the tactic, i.e. causing upheavals with things that don't fit, together with the most terrible, starting a war.

We already know well from history: the real, big settlements don't happen. The real criminals, who often lie in the background, hardly or not at all confess their crimes, and those caught in their net pay unfairly. If there is a war, then there is not much to fear from a later, all-encompassing accountability.

So go ahead, make the kraval even bigger!

We will also keep the treasury blocks worth a few forints as long as it is necessary, but could "blocks" worth many billions of euros be missing? The other hundreds or thousands of blocks may be missing, if there is already a war, there was. But then who should be held accountable?

However, history has already proven that instead of the expected bright future, those fleeing from accountability end up in a self-absorbing spiral, only in a really continuous big fight.

It is really enviably good if we can stay out of this!

József Kiss ny. Károly Kós is an award-winning landscape and garden architect

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