The huge march of Hungarian freedom continues today, Petőfi is here with us in this march - said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the commemoration on March 15 in Kiskőrös. He also said that we see him rebelling when foreigners want to tell Hungarians how to live. We see him confronting the world powers who want to re-integrate the Hungarians into a European superstate. We owe him, he added. That is why we will never allow the flag of freedom to be wrested from the hands of the Hungarians. We won't let it go and we won't succeed, because every Hungarian has a little Petőfi! said the prime minister.
If a stranger looks at the life of Sándor Petőfi, who was born two hundred years ago, he will hardly believe what he sees - Viktor Orbán began his speech. The Prime Minister recalled that the poet was so weak at birth that he was bathed in spirits, but he "remained". First he is a traveling actor, then he becomes the celebrated poet of the country. In five years, he writes a thousand poems and gains international fame.
He sparked a revolution that would bring freedom to his country.
He was a soldier in the War of Independence, at the age of twenty-six he was killed by the guns of the occupying troops - summed up the life of the famous poet.
A twenty-six-year trajectory in the Hungarian sky, which starts deep in Hungary and ends on the star trail - evaluated the Prime Minister. According to Viktor Orbán, a foreigner would call Petőfi's life a mystery. And an American filmmaker says that it's a Petőfi mystery. "We Hungarians see no mystery here. "Hungarian destiny - let's say," he opined.
Viktor Orbán said: Sándor Petőfi is our beloved son. Every Hungarian knows at least one line of poetry from him since childhood.
Every Hungarian has a little Petőfi, and Petőfi has every Hungarian, he added.
Viktor Orbán said that it is difficult for non-Hungarians to understand that we have been telling the story of this day over and over again for 175 years on March 15. "They don't understand why we don't get bored of it," he added. As the Prime Minister said, we are not bored and we will not, since this is a great common birthday of our nation. And that's when the family gathers .
That is why we tell the story of this rainy day when the March youth set out. The young people did not start from the Pilvax café, but from Kiskőrös. The Prime Minister drew attention to the fact that we should not forget the parents of the elderly. As he said, let us bow before István Petrovich, who worked with honor to create a happy childhood for his children. Let us also bow our heads to the mother, Mária Hrúz, whom the Petőfi family tombstone calls the most beloved mother, said the Prime Minister. "Glory to the Petrovic family," declared Viktor Orbán.
According to the prime minister, if two Hungarians meet, there is a good chance that they will have three opinions within minutes.
That is why it is a rare thing that there is agreement that Sándor Petőfi is the greatest Hungarian poet, he noted.
As he said, it is strange that we agree on a literary issue, but without literature there is no Hungarian life. - In us Hungarians, love, joy and sorrow mature into poems and songs. We Hungarians live poetically in this land, where life is often very prosaic, he pointed out.
He also emphasized that when we have to name someone in whom we find everything that we consider to be Hungarian destiny and Hungarian genius, then we name Petőfi.
Perhaps because freedom has its own language, a world language, who created the Hungarian dialect of freedom, he added. Hungarian is the most successful language of freedom, because Petőfi's language is understood everywhere in the world, on all five continents, and has been translated into more than 200 languages, the Prime Minister noted about the poet.
Viktor Orbán also compared Sándor Petőfi to a garabonia and to a thorny flower emerging from the ground. He noted that he had insulted several Ministers of War to the point of blood, that he was not fit for a soldier, but according to the rules of the world at that time, he was not fit for a husband either.
It was not an easy case for Bárát either, he was able to rule like a Caesar, he whipped the untalented poets and condemned the talented ones for their laziness. He specifically hated critics and criticism
- the Prime Minister remembered Petőfi. - Such a person is often excluded from their hearts by the others, although they recognize their talent. The opposite happened with Petőfi, they locked it in their hearts. Petőfi was helped by God because his talent did not become arrogant, he indicated.
He lived only 26 years, and 5 of those years were devoted to real work. He wrote poetry as we mere mortals breathe. Translated, wrote, edited. Only five years and Petőfi's oeuvre is still complete, said Viktor Orbán. According to him, his life's work was completed by the fact that he paid back to his country everything that he undertook to do in his poems.
According to the Prime Minister, this is why we envy Petőfi, because we all want to leave this world having fulfilled our duties.
That is why we will never allow the flag of freedom to be wrested from the hands of the Hungarians. We won't let it go and we won't succeed, because every Hungarian has a little Petőfi! concluded the prime minister.
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