Prime Minister Viktor Orban addressed the state commemoration of Hungary's anti-Soviet uprising of 1956, drawing parallels between Hungary's historic and current freedom fights.
"If freedom and national independence are lost, then so are we," Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at the state commemoration of Hungary's 1956 revolution in front the House of Terror Museum. Concerning the failed anti-Soviet revolution, Orban said that western Europe "may have admired but could not understand" those developments.
"We are a brave and fighting nation, and know that those that are not respected will be despised," he said, and added that "they do not understand us in Brussels now because they could not understand Hungary in those days either". The prime minister also said that Europe had derailed to find itself heading towards a dead end, adding that the EU and many of the bloc's member states "are being held hostage by a financial speculator empire".
"After achieving freedom in 1990, we have again come to a turning point in our country's history," Orban said.
