(August 18, 2023)
I wish you a good day on this hot summer day, on the upcoming 1123rd anniversary of the founding of our state, on the peace meeting of the Labor Party! Thank you for your invitation, I am happy to be with people in Debrecen who share our cause, the cause of peace and a more humane social system!
Our King István was canonized 940 years ago, in 1083, because he realized that the survival of our people depends on whether they come to terms with Christian Europe or confront it. Saint István chose compromise and integrated Hungary into the great family of European nations.
We owe it to his historical act that we still exist, and to his teaching that whoever feels responsible for the fate of our people must be able to adapt to the historical circumstances of the time. Together with you, the Hungarian Community for Peace, as the moral and spiritual heir of our state-founding king, sees the future of the Hungarian people in coming to terms with the East and integrating into the strange and sometimes foreign Eastern civilization from which we ourselves come.
It is not easy to choose between West and East! But it makes our job easier that you don’t have to! We should not clash here and there, but should be able to live in good relations with both the East and the West. It is not necessary to destroy what man has built over a thousand years, but to continue building in a new direction! To discover new opportunities and to live with them! We are interested in a world in which East and West cooperate rather than oppose each other.
Hungary conducts 80 percent of its trade with the European Union, while 80 percent of its energy comes from Russia. What could prove our bond in both directions better than this?
Today, the cooperative new world order is offered by the East. It is in our national interest not to get stuck in the quagmire that rejects peaceful cooperation, and to make other Christian peoples of the West understand that we should not give up our values, culture, and faith, but supplement them with those of others, the irreplaceable material and spiritual values of thousands of years of civilizations.
Just as our King István encountered enormous resistance to integration, today the new one is born in the midst of a fierce struggle. Western powers are used to rule and do not want to give it up. They took it into their heads to break up Russia and divide its fabulous natural treasures among themselves.
They chose Ukraine as the means of their conquest, but they ran into a wall, the Russian wall. They misjudged the balance of power and are beginning to realize that with their wrong decision they could lose not only Ukraine, but also other Eastern European allies, including us.
Russia leaves no doubt that its primary goal is the neutralization and demilitarization of Ukraine, linked to de-Nazification.
Based on the events on the battlefield, there can be no doubt that it is only a matter of time when and with whom the negotiations on neutrality can begin. The Ukrainian counter-offensive failed. Nearly 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers died. So far, NATO has tried to subjugate Russia at the cost of the lives of more than 300,000 Ukrainian fighters – in vain. Now they blame each other for the failure, although they have not yet given up hope. Let’s see if they manage to overcome the people that neither Napoleon nor Hitler succeeded in defeating. Now they are hoping that Moscow will enter into some kind of ceasefire, armistice, partial peace, which would not solve anything, but would be good for them to take advantage of the situation, strengthen Ukraine and include it in NATO. They talk about peace, but in reality they don’t want peace, they want to defeat the Russians, dragging us down with them.
Moscow does not give up its goal, it no longer wants a hostile Ukraine next door. And if Ukraine lays down its arms and declares its neutrality, it will have a ripple effect on the whole of Eastern Europe and even on NATO as a whole. Let’s not forget NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s statement: “A Russian victory in Ukraine would mean the defeat of NATO”.
I myself believe that the neutralization of Ukraine would facilitate the neutralization of Hungary as well. It could put an end to the limitation of our sovereignty by NATO and pave the way for us to join groups such as BRICS, the Eurasian Economic Union and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The multipolar new world order that replaces American hegemony.
Hungary can become a valuable link in the creation of a Eurasian economic cooperation system that stretches from Lisbon to Vladivostok. But let’s not run ahead!
Here and now, our main task is to protect the peace of our people and the sovereignty of our country. This is also why we stand out in Debrecen. We have to protect our peace and our self-determination against those who would like to send us to the slaughterhouse for their nefarious interests. The task is complex, as an alliance has been created between pro-war domestic and foreign forces. As with the Nazi Germans at the time. Fortunately, we have a government that is pro-peace, even though its pro-peace is not always on top of the situation. He often backs down, compromises, says one thing and does another. He dances back and forth, although he shouldn’t always. But it is still better than letting us be used as cannon fodder, as Kiev is doing with the Transcarpathian Hungarians.
I am glad that the Hungarian Community for Peace, together with the Labor Party, together with many other organizations of the Forum for Peace movement, supports the government against the hawks in Washington and Brussels, so that together we can prevent our country from drifting into war and thwart their efforts to replace the ruling government with a pro-war government even in an anti-democratic way.
In the framework of the Forum for Peace, we appealed for peace to the Hungarian government and the leaders of the European Union yesterday. We asked them to start negotiating peace with Russia instead of further arming Ukraine!
I hope that the Hungarian government has already understood that Russia cannot be defeated militarily, nor forced to its knees with sanctions! It would be time for the leadership of the European Union to understand too!
Our historical experience tells us that it is not enough to want peace against those who want war. Force is also needed to restrain those interested in war, since against them the weapon of words cannot replace the word of weapons. These weapons are now contributing to the birth of a more just international system. One that is based on the sovereign cooperation and equality of nations instead of the hegemony of the West over the world. We believe that this goal is both in our national interest and in the interest of all peoples, including the peoples of the West.
On the Feast of the New Bread, when you break your bread, I ask you to bow before those to whom we are grateful that it could be on our table! They represent the main value, the people for whom we should fight.
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(The president of the Hungarian Community for Peace gave his speech in Debrecen at the invitation of the Labor Party.)
Magyar Békekör 