Recently one asshole visited another asshole.
Putin came to Hungary to meet Orbán.
During his visit the former KGB officer decided to lay a wreath at an obelisk shaped memorial in one of Budapest’s central cemeteries.
The memorial’s inscription reads:
“Eternal gratitude and glory to the soviet heroes that gave their lives for the freedom of the Hungarian people in the October 1956 counterrevolution”
Claiming the 1956 revolution (was not really one) being a counterrevolution (was not one at all) is sick, stupid and ignoring history. Going officially to this monument to bestow honour without putting things into perspective is like spitting into the host’s face.
But the truth is that at the same time the other asshole misuses this period of darkness for his personal communist which-hunt that tears the nation apart.
So, it doesn’t really matter if one asshole spits onto the other asshole.
But luckily somebody delivered a speechless speech, shortly after one of the assholes had left the cemetery.
Here is the transcript:
“This place is a place of sadness and grief.
Grief, because human remains are buried here and sadness because these human remains were young adults, kids that were send to a foreign country to fight against other young adults who believed in a different world.
Young people full of life lost their lives before it even has xstarted.
Only because leading Soviet assholes helped leading Hungarian assholes to suppress young people’s outcry for freedom.
I quote George S. McGovern: "I'm fed up to the ears with men dreaming up wars for young men to die in it!"
There is another memorial across here in this cemetery which was erected for the Hungarian Heroes of 1956. The two memorials are as far apart as the emotions of the visitors believing in one memory more than in the other.
These two memorials should be moved next to each other, so they can serve as a reminder:
It is better to teach our children to love and not to loathe.
To develop solidarity not solitary.
To develop own thoughts and to respect others’ thoughts.
When we send our children to a foreign country we shall send them to make new friends they can play with and learn from instead of shooting at them.
And if we do this, this place of sadness and grief becomes a place of peace and hope.”
Then I woke up, had a coffee, concluding:
“We must not allow our thoughts to be invaded by assholes. Otherwise there is a fair chance that our children become assholes as well.”
6. Mar 2015