The barracks of the valiant Sándor Szurmay Garrison Brigade were named after Queen Mária Terézia, who founded the 32nd Infantry Regiment belonging to the brigade in 1741, Minister of Defense Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky announced at the September renaming ceremony of the barracks on Budaörsi út, previously named after Sándor Petőfi. The news divided Hungarian society, and one of our readers took to the pen to share his thoughts about it.

"This Labanc Trézsis barracks name does not let me rest, this insidious Habsburg conquest!

And just in the year of "PETOFI 200"!

I am reading the Declaration of Independence of the Hungarian National Assembly from 1848:

– "faithful House of Habsburg-Lothringen,"

– “every step of which is marked by either open violence or criminal intent and intrigue,”

- "The 300 years of their rule are nothing but continuous suffering,"

– "the Hungarian nation persecuted to death," etc.

The manifesto of Ferenc ll. Rákóczi:

"The old wounds of the glorious Hungarian nation have been renewed!"

In 21 points, he justifies that the Habsburg "liberation" (like the Russian robbery in 1945!) is worse than the pagan Turkish rule!

"Lamentations beat the skies!"

"Managing the country's affairs by command"

"I'm a stranger to his neck"

Forced resettlement, transfer of Hungarian land to foreigners, unbearable taxes, etc.

I haven't heard this yet, but I think our 150 years of Turkish occupation is also the fault of the Habsburgs, because the first and most important duty of the ruler at any time is to protect the country and its people from foreign occupation, robbery, and murder!

For example, the Turks simply walked into Buda in 1541, like the migrants in the west today, and occupied the capital of Hungary without firing a shot!

If we asked, what would they say?

László Hunyadi, Bocskai and the Hajduks, the Bethlens, the Bátorias, Tamás Esze and the Kurucas, Péter Zrínyi, Frangepán, Martinovics, the Arad 13, Széchenyi, the victims of the Bach era, Sándor Petőfi, the one and a half million Hungarians who "stumbled" to America?

Once again we submitted something "voluntarily and singing!"

(Reader letters and opinion articles do not necessarily agree with the position of the editors of civilek.info.)

Photo: MTI/Róbert Hegedüs