Among other things, Levente Szörényi also talks in the interview about where he would defect if Péter Magyar were the prime minister.
"He once said in an interview that there are three types of Hungarians: the one from István, the one from Koppány and the one with a foreign heart. Do you still maintain this, or has time passed on this triple division?
It doesn't matter in which era we raise this question. Forty or twenty years ago I thought the division was valid, but today I don't think so. There are historical situations in which different social groups and elites think differently; this is expressed by the figures of Koppány and István, as well as the stranger whose interest it is to tear the parties apart. By the way, Imre Makovecz coined the term foreign-hearted, and I found it extremely apt, because foreign-heartedness is not a matter of origin, but of feeling. Well, after the statement you mentioned, I received a lot of letters in which many people wrote to me indignantly that they felt like good Hungarians even as Christians. At the time, János Bródy said that society could not be broken up on such a basis; a lot of water has flowed down the Danube since then, and what did I read in a recent statement? Speaking about István, the king, he said that the Hungarians have equally the views of István and Koppány. Well, that really marks the passage of time. It's true, he forgot to mention one thing, the one with a foreign heart.
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Who are the strangers these days?
You don't need to look into their chests, their words and actions betray them. Aren't those who betray Hungary every day in the European Parliament according to their own interests, claiming to represent the Hungarians, not alien-minded?
Is it fate that there are always those with strange hearts among them?
Ferenc Gyurcsány once said that you can leave Hungary; if this country is so unlivable, why don't they take him at his word?
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In public discourse and political speeches, the question always arises, where do we belong: to the West or to the East? Do you think this is timely today?
I feel it is more and more timely. Where we belong will not depend on us, but on the West, which is increasingly destroying itself. Because what is the West now? I see that the sanctions policy is not ruining Russia, but sending the rich Germans to the ground, and we are economically hanging on Germany. We cannot help them ruin themselves, but we will feel the consequences of their irresponsible policy the most. In the eyes of the West, we are once again pariahs, it is no wonder that they are shutting off the EU money spigots and trying to bleed Hungary. But we shouldn't be surprised by this either, since Trianon is to whom? For Turkey or the West? Nevertheless, it is a geopolitical fact that we belong to the West, but if our life opportunities are cut off, what should we do? And if we're looking for symbols, there's the perverse opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, which amounts to a moral fiasco. Let's not even talk about intersex boxing, where a man fought his way through half a dozen women and won a gold medal, or about the unswimmable infection that makes athletes sick, Apollinaire's Seine. These are signs. We did not desire this West when we wrote István, the King, and this was not the West I saw when I visited my relatives in Paris after graduation.
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And now we have a good leader?
Of course it is, that's why they want to destroy it. Throughout Hungarian history, there have always been examples of a lot of money, paripa and weapons coming from abroad to change the domestic situation according to their taste - if we are talking about the era, just think of Péter Orseolo, who gave the independent Szent István to the Germans as a fief of Hungary. Even now we can witness this in political life, see Péter Magyar and his company. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is also a man of control, but at least he has a firm character and a Karakan, compared to the current, half-hearted president of the United States. The fictional character for the Hungarians, who is financed and built against Viktor Orbán, is simply unclassifiable. Sufficiently narcissistic persons are always successfully found, who, even if they let themselves down a thousand times in vain, return to the field even more magnificently.
In any case, I will defect if this man is elected as prime minister, even to Turkey!"
Featured image: MTI/Szilárd Koszticsák
