Much has been written about relationship between Hungary and Poles. In fact, if it was possible to implement definitions from the area of human interaction to interactions between groups of people, common perception of Poles and Hungarians could be called friendship. It is built by large and tiny things. Community of culture and character. And besides history. For although we have developed separate paths, both our peoples have brushed their past with power, to endure the bitterness of falling.
Each of us is marked by his own historical disasters and traumas. And there have been times erstwhile we were suffering together. In Poznań we remember especially about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which must have sparked peculiar solidarity in the hearts of the Poznańians, who had survived the pacifications of the labour revolt only a fewer months earlier. In October 1956, the destiny of Poland and Hungary closely intertwined. The Budapest march of 23 October, from which the outbreak of the Hungarian uprising dates, began as a manifestation of support for political thawing in Poland. The thaw, which was a turning point, made PRL imperfect, but Polish state.
Moreover, Poles reacted violently and spontaneously to the news of dramatic events in Hungary. erstwhile Polish Radio announced an appeal for the honorary donation of blood to the Hungarian brothers, Poles began massing in long queues in front of blood donation stations, which worked day and night at that time. Crews, trade unions, youth and scout organisations and individuals donated crucial donations of money to acquisition medicines and food.
Interestingly, as prof. Janusz Karwat points out, not only average Poles, but besides organization authorities, were solidarity with Hungary. It's clearly in the press. In the press sources of the era we can easy find all the information about the rally of support for Hungarians organized by the PZPR. They all went under the slogans of supporting political change in Budapest and demanding the withdrawal of russian troops from Hungary.
Although they were just gestures, they were not meaningless. specified gestures our common past evidence much more. In September 1939, the regent of the state, Admiral Miklós Horthy, refused to let Hungarian troops of the Wehrmacht to enter Poland. Horthy ordered to mine the railway tunnels and blow them up in the event of an effort to penetrate the Germans by force.
On the another hand, the memory of General Joseph Zacharias Bem is inactive alive on the Danube He was 1 of the insurgent commanders (in the uprising of 1848), and for a time even the chief chief of the Hungarian troops. The Budapest General's monument, which dominates the square of his name, traditionally gathers Hungarian and Polish delegations on the occasion of patriotic anniversary.
What determines Hungarian-Polish friendship, however, is not beautiful gestures or similarities of fate. It's common business. The geographical location of Poland and Hungary makes us face akin threats and akin opportunities. Separated from each another by the natural barrier of the Carpathians for most of our long past we did not get in the way of each other. On the contrary, we have been valuable and proven allies. So it was geography that made us candidates for “friends”. We did the remainder ourselves. And while we are intellectually aware of the inability of actual relationship between nations, it is worth cultivating this mythical “friendship”. Especially as a proven ally is priceless in the face of modern challenges and threats from the globalist elite.
Since 2007, March 23rd we celebrate Polish-Hungarian relationship Day. On 12 March that year, the Hungarian Parliament adopted a declaration on this matter. 4 days later, the Polish parliament adopted the same resolution by acclamation. So our national relationship became an act of law.
What do you want your friends in Hungary on this day? I think that in a globalised planet they would inactive be able to see the needs of Hungary and Hungary. To continue, as they do today, not American or European politics, but Hungarian policies. possibly in time we'll learn it from them. It would be a common benefit.
Przemysław Piasta
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