The left-liberal voices are shouting again, according to them, Orbán compared the European Union to the Third Reich in his speech in Veszprém - dear good Mr. Bolgár notes this comment, of course, who never slips up(!) - and mentioned Hitler as someone who wanted European unity.
Let's see what the prime minister actually said:
"Byzantium, Charles the Great, Otto, Napoleon, Hitler on different grounds, but they all dreamed of European unity. And this is still the case today: independent national existence and the idea of empire are present at the same time. National culture and European values. Sovereignty and, as they say in Brussels, the ever closer union .
That's exactly what he said, and that's all he said.
So there were others besides the Nazi leader, and everyone is responsible for cherishing the idea of empire, of course on different grounds.
Hungary was never pro-imperialist, it just tolerated their ambitions for power unwillingly, or even fought against them. Árpád and Szent István against the Germans, János Hunyadi against the Turks, Rákóczi and Kossuth against the Habsburgs, Miklós Horthy against communism. And Nazi Germany, like the Soviets, invaded us and took away our sovereignty.
That is why we do not like even the shadow of the imperial idea - as opposed to the shadow government - and we do the same with the Union, which demands increasingly suffocating cooperation.
Dear Mr. Bulgarian! Let's talk about it, you should make a distinction mainly with regard to goals and means, right... The mentioned masters of history appeared in Orbán's speech as extremely negative examples, not examples to be followed.
In a word, we say no to the ever closer union , because Europe can be imagined as a unity of free peoples, and
"if the bureaucrats in Brussels can master their now well-developed Hungarophobia, then together, we, Hungary and Brussels, are capable of great things"
- according to the Prime Minister.
But of course we understand the fuss, because
“it's not that liberals are ignorant. It's that they know a lot of things that aren't true"
as Ronald Reagan once said.
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