Marking the Day of National Cohesion, House Speaker László Kövér said Hungarians must continue the democratic struggles for national self-defense that they started in 2010.
In his commemorative speech, Kövér said it was important that Hungarians do not allow themselves to be deceived "the way their forebears did in 1918 and 1919" directly before the signing of the Treaty of Trianon.
"History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes," Kövér said. "It would be tragic for our children and our grandchildren if we allowed our Hungarian future to rhyme with our history of 1918-1919."
He warned that if the "dark period of 1918-19" was forgotten, "those times could return" because the country today was also seeing a return of the types of politicians who rose to power amid the chaos that followed the First World War.
"These people, with their press funded from abroad and in the service of foreign interests, want to deceive the Hungarian people and cripple the Hungarian state the way their forebears did in 1918-1919," the speaker said.
Kövér said the Hungarian sacrifices of the 105 years that have passed since the signing of the Trianon Peace Treaty demanded that Hungarians defend their country and nation from vulnerability and "our children and grandchildren from falling victim to political con artists and imperial agents again".
Kövér said Hungarians should draw strength from the fact that over the past century they had "proven themselves stronger than those who wanted to tear them apart".
Kövér said the only way the nations of the Carpathian Basin could become "sources of Europe’s preservation and the necessary rebirth of the European Union" was by cooperating to preserve their nations and states.