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When the gathered mass in front of the Parliament during Péter Magyar’s victory speech chanted “Európa! Európa! Európa!” (Europe! Europe! Europe!), it was the moment I really felt the historic nature of this day.
For 16 years we were increasingly tending East, and the opposing TISZA’s supermajority, while hitting a record turnout in the general elections, is a strong message that the voters want Hungary to flip back to the West.
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- I volunteered for TISZA for 9 months before the election
- 20th of August is one of our national holidays, our state founding day, remembering how our first Catholic king (first king in general, as his father was a tribes chief) founded Christian Hungary as a state, symbolically choosing the Christian European path for the previously nomad pagan Hungarians nation.
- Our most famous musical, István a király (István the king) depicts the battle between the pagan Koppány and Christian István after the death of Chief Géza. Koppány was Géza’s brother, and by pagan customs, he’d inherit the throne. But Géza, who baptized and raised his son István a Catholic, as he saw the future of Hungary in the Christian West, left his son, István in power, strengthening his position with a marriage alliance to the West. The musical (or rock opera) depicts both sides of the conflict as genuine, sympathetic figures who each have their points, representing the choice between two ways and the decision of what would be the best way forward for Hungary for the upcoming millennium.
- It can be seen as colored by the era: it was written in 1983 in a Hungary that was still part of the Eastern Bloc
- Our most famous musical, István a király (István the king) depicts the battle between the pagan Koppány and Christian István after the death of Chief Géza. Koppány was Géza’s brother, and by pagan customs, he’d inherit the throne. But Géza, who baptized and raised his son István a Catholic, as he saw the future of Hungary in the Christian West, left his son, István in power, strengthening his position with a marriage alliance to the West. The musical (or rock opera) depicts both sides of the conflict as genuine, sympathetic figures who each have their points, representing the choice between two ways and the decision of what would be the best way forward for Hungary for the upcoming millennium.
- I heard in a preaching on a 20th of August Mass from a historian bishop, that Hungary has a tendency to be the border between East and West.
- Examples of Hungary being a flipping state or a border state: St. István’ founding of a Cristian state after Hungarians arriving from the East as pagan nomads, Pannonia being a flipping province between the Eastern and the Western part of the Roman Empire, the Turkish invasion stopping on Hungary, the Iron Curtain running along Hungary’s western border and then being broken down first here, near my hometown (the symbolic taking down the Berlin Wall came later), Hungary for years being the pawn state of Russia within the European Union, then Hungary choosing Europe in 2026.