Long live Rákosi! Long live the Party! Long live Rákosi! Long live the Party! The glorifying rhyme hummed and swayed, of course accompanied by rhythmic and long-lasting applause. For a long time, because no one dared to stop. This was also a great achievement of the years of the so-called personality cult, and there were quite a few comrades who deified the fair-haired Leader not only out of compulsion, but out of conviction.
Even today, there are events where a long-lasting, enthusiastic ovation accompanies the expressions of one or another politician, but there is nothing wrong with that. Today, no one pays attention to who was the first to stop life support and the black car does not come for anyone, saying "Comrade, you are hostile to our Leader, which is a betrayal of the idea!"
So there is no cult of personality? Maybe there isn't yet, but as the person from Pest says, there is a demand for it.
Before anyone misunderstands this little train of thought, I apologize in advance, we cannot talk about a personality cult simply because certain groups love their leader to the point of fanaticism. Not even if they live long, because we can define this with another Hungarian term: love, respect. In other words, I am not talking about Viktor Orbán. So what do I "cultivate"?
A friend of mine contacted me asking if I had read that someone could win (?) a sweater decorated with the face of Klára Dobrev, the dragon lady of Semlőhegy. Since I love a joke, I typed Dobrev sweater into the search engine, and tadam!!! The DK webshop has been published. I don't know if anyone can win a sweater like this for anything, but I do know that you can buy to buy.
Everything you could wish for is here, please, Dobrev's image is supposed to give the evening of each play. In addition to the sweater - which is offered in several sizes, I would recommend the large one - there is a drum t-shirt, mug, water bottle, pen, bag - not old, but canvas - and, of course, a badge.
However, I have also seen a T-shirt from which Vitor Orbán was looking at me, so I quickly searched for Fidesz webshop, then Fidesz gift shop... and nothing. No shop, no shop. I did find an Orbán T-shirt, but it is not sold by the party, but by a few private individuals.
Please, with all due respect, here it is. The DK is – not surprisingly – loyal to Komcs traditions, since Comrade Rákosi was also the face of the Party at the time. There was a painting of him in the wheat field, his photo was decorated on the walls of every office, in the workshops of the plants and factories (in the company of Comrade Stalin, of course), his busts were decorated as paperweights on the desks of important and less important comrades, you could caress his bald head at any time. DK and Dobrev copy this cult building excellently - and of course maybe with financial gain, although I don't know who would think of paying to shove food into Dobrev bags. On the way home, the shadow prime minister could possibly devour the food, just as her beloved husband devoured a good part of the country's wealth. He didn't have a bag for this, just a picture.
Unfortunately, the imagination of DK's creative people has stopped at the already listed high-profile products, even though there is still an opportunity to create a personal cult on the noble path. The already mentioned bust is here, which not only comes in handy as a decoration, but could also be a great tool for cracking nuts. My father used Comrade Rákosi's statuette for exactly that.
They could make a drum watch with the words "Come My Time" without numbers. Why show dates and times when you don't know if the time will ever come? In fact, it is better if there are no pointers on it at all, for the user absorbed in admiration, it should be enough for Klárika to play with his time. You could make cuckoo Dobrev watches. Every quarter of an hour, a little Dobrev would come out of his Nesmlőhegy model house and say cuckoo. It would also be good to have a DVD on which you could hear the essence of Dobrev's speeches in deep hypnosis: "Corrupt government, we are social democrats, Orbán's dictatorship." The same thing repeated for, say, 25 minutes.
A pair of trousers and a skirt would look good, we could recommend this mainly to couples who want to be close to each other. Being confronted with such a face on the mentioned clothes is a sure way for our partner to take it off us in a flash. Who wants to watch for a long time?
What is still missing is Dobrev's storybook, collecting Mrs. Gyucsány's selected insults and promises.
However, this fairy tale collection should only be bought by people over 18 years old, because we don't want the younger ones to have nightmares.
Author: György Tóth Jr
Photo: webshop.dkp.hu
