Last Tuesday (March 15) was a Hungarian national holiday: the commemoration of Hungary’s independence from the Austrian Empire. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a speech in the rain that day, electrifying his compatriots in the audience — and anyone else who is permitted to hear or read a translation of the speech that has not been filtered, redacted, or expurgated by the legacy media.

His words were tougher even than those spoken by Geert Wilders. However, when Mr. Wilders becomes prime minister of the Netherlands, perhaps he will say something similar in his first address to the nation. He, too, may well proclaim his determination to resist the multicultural regime that has been imposed upon his country by the iron fist of the European Union.

When Mr. Orbán mentioned the events of 168 years ago, he was referring to the Revolutions of 1848, which swept like a wildfire across Europe and completely transformed the political landscape. The effect of the Revolution in Hungary was to force the Austrian Empire to concede the independence of Hungary, and grant it equal status with Austria in the empire. Thenceforward, what was formerly known as the Austrian Empire became the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, and so it remained until the demise of the empire and its dissolution under the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

Many people who fear Hungarian nationalism confuse Mr. Orbán’s party, Fidesz, with the anti-Semitic sieg-heilers of Jobbik. As if to underline the distinction between Fidesz’ brand of nationalism and that of Jobbik, Mr. Orbán repudiates the “crime, terrorism, homophobia and synagogue-burning anti-Semitism” that would be imported into Hungary along with mass Islamic immigration.

This is the sort of speech that should be translated into dozens of languages and passed around as samizdat by oppressed dissidents currently groaning under the yoke of multicultural tyranny in Europe and other Western countries.

The video below is a subtitled 13-minute excerpt from Viktor Orbán’s speech. Many thanks to Dzsihádfigyelo for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

The full text of the translated speech will be posted here later.

Transcript:

00:05 The destiny of the Hungarians has become intertwined with that of Europe’s nations

00:11 and has grown to be so much a part of the union

00:14 that today not a single people — including the Hungarian people — can be free if Europe is not free.

00:22 And today Europe is as fragile, weak and sickly as “a flower being eaten away by a hidden worm.”

00:31 Today, 168 years after the great Wars of Independence of the European peoples,

00:38 Europe, our common home is not free!

00:43 Ladies and Gentlemen, Europe is not free. Because freedom begins with speaking the truth.

00:51 Today in Europe it is forbidden to speak the truth.

00:55 Even if it is made of silk, a muzzle is a muzzle.

01:02 It is forbidden to say that those arriving are not refugees, but that Europe is threatened by migration.

01:14 It is forbidden to say that tens of millions are ready to set out in our direction.

01:20 It is forbidden to say that immigration brings crime and terror to our countries.

01:27 It is forbidden to point out that the masses arriving from other civilizations

01:33 endanger our way of life, our culture, our customs and our Christian traditions.

01:40 It is forbidden to point out that those who arrived earlier have

01:45 have already built up their own new, separate world for themselves,

01:51 with its own laws and ideals, which is forcing apart the thousand-year-old structure of Europe.

02:00 It is forbidden to point out that this is not an accidental and unintentional chain of consequences,

02:07 but a preplanned and orchestrated operation; a mass of people directed towards us.

02:15 It is forbidden to say that in Brussels they are concocting schemes

02:19 to transport foreigners here as quickly as possible and to settle them here among us.

02:26 It is forbidden to point out that the purpose of settling people here

02:30 is to reshape the religious and cultural landscape of Europe, and to reengineer its ethnic foundations.

02:39 — thereby eliminating the last barrier to internationalism: the nation-states.

02:46 It is forbidden to say that Brussels is now stealthily devouring more

02:51 and more slices of our national sovereignty,

02:55 and that in Brussels many are now making a plan for a United States of Europe —

03:01 for which no one has ever given authorisation.

03:11 Ladies and Gentlemen,

03:14 Today’s enemies of freedom are cut from a different cloth than the royal

03:19 and imperial rulers of old, or those who ran the Soviet system;

03:23 they use a different set of tools to force us into submission.

03:27 Today they do not imprison us, they do not transport us to concentration camps,

03:32 and they do not send in tanks to occupy countries loyal to freedom.

03:39 Today the international media’s artillery bombardments, denunciations, threats and blackmail are enough

03:46 — or rather, have been enough so far.

03:51 The peoples of Europe are slowly awakening, they are regrouping,

03:56 and will soon regain ground.

03:59 Europe’s beams that rest on the suppression of truth are creaking and cracking.

04:07 The peoples of Europe may have finally understood that their future is at stake:

04:14 Now not only are their prosperity, cosy lives, jobs at stake,

04:20 but our very security and the peaceful order of our lives are menaced as well.

04:25 At last, the peoples of Europe, who have been slumbering in abundance and prosperity, have understood

04:31 that the principles of life that Europe has been built on are in mortal danger.

04:37 Europe is the community of Christian, free, and independent nations; equality of men and women;

04:47 fair competition and solidarity; pride and humility; justice and mercy.

04:57 This time the danger is not attacking us the way wars and natural disasters do,

05:08 suddenly pulling the rug from under our feet.

05:14 Mass migration is a slow stream of water persistently eroding the shores.

05:21 It is masquerading as a humanitarian cause, but its true nature is the occupation of territory.

05:28 And what is gaining territory for them is losing territory for us.

05:33 Flocks of obsessed human rights defenders feel the overwhelming urge to reprimand us

05:41 and to make allegations against us.

05:44 Allegedly we are hostile xenophobes,

05:48 but the truth is that the history of our nation is also one of inclusion.

05:54 and the history of intertwining of cultures.

05:59 Those who have sought to come here as new family members, as allies,

06:03 or as displaced persons fearing for their lives

06:07 have been let in to make a new home for themselves.

06:13 But those who have come here with the intention of changing our country,

06:18 shaping our nation in their own image, those who have come with violence and against our will,

06:25 — have always been met with resistance.

06:35 Ladies and Gentlemen,

06:38 At first, they talk about only a few hundred, a thousand or two thousand relocated people.

06:45 But not a single responsible European leader would dare to swear under oath

06:50 that this couple of thousand will not eventually increase to tens or hundreds of thousands.

06:57 If we want to halt this mass migration, first we must curb Brussels.

07:04 The main danger to Europe’s future does not come from those who want to come here,

07:11 but from Brussels’ fanatical internationalism.

07:14 We should not allow Brussels to place itself above the law.

07:21 We shall not allow it to force upon us the bitter fruit of its cosmopolitan immigration policy.

07:31 We shall not import to Hungary crime, terrorism, homophobia and synagogue-burning anti-Semitism.

07:40 There shall be no urban districts beyond the reach of the law, there shall be no mass disorder,

07:46 No immigrant riots here, and there shall be no gangs hunting down our women and daughters.

07:56 We shall not allow others to tell us whom we can let into our home and country, whom we will live alongside,

08:07 and with whom we will share our country.

08:10 We know how these things go. First we allow them to tell us whom we must take in,

08:18 then they force us to serve foreigners in our own country.

08:24 In the end we find ourselves being told to pack up and leave our own land.

08:30 Therefore we reject the forced resettlement scheme, and we shall tolerate neither blackmail, nor threats.

08:47 The time has come to ring the warning bell. The time has come for opposition and resistance.

08:56 The time has come to gather allies to us. The time has come to raise the flag of proud nations.

09:05 The time has come to prevent the destruction of Europe, and to save the future of Europe.

09:12 To this end, regardless of party affiliation, we call on every citizen of Hungary to unite,

09:21 and we call on every European nation to unite.

09:25 The leaders and citizens of Europe must no longer live in two separate worlds.

09:32 We must restore the unity of Europe. We the peoples of Europe

09:36 cannot be free individually if we are not free together.

09:43 If we unite our forces, we shall succeed; if we pull in different directions, we shall fail.

09:49 Together we are strength, disunited we are weakness. Either together, or not at all — today this is the law.

09:58 Hungarians,

10:02 In 1848 it was written in the book of fate that nothing could be done against the Habsburg Empire.

10:14 If we had then resigned ourselves to that outcome, our fate would have been sealed,

10:19 and the German sea would have swallowed up the Hungarians.

10:24 In 1956 it was written in the book of fate that we were to remain an occupied and sovietised country,

10:34 until patriotism was extinguished in the very last Hungarian.

10:39 If then we had resigned ourselves to that outcome, our fate would have been sealed,

10:45 and the Soviet sea would have swallowed up the Hungarians.

10:49 Today it is written in the book of fate that hidden, faceless world powers

10:55 will eliminate everything that is unique,

10:59 autonomous, age-old and national.

11:03 They will blend cultures, religions and populations, until our many-faceted

11:08 and proud Europe will finally become bloodless and docile.

11:16 And if we resign ourselves to this outcome, our fate will be sealed,

11:21 and we will be swallowed up in the enormous belly of the United States of Europe.

11:28 The task which awaits the Hungarian people, the nations of Central Europe

11:36 and the other European nations which have not yet lost all common sense

11:41 is to defeat, rewrite and transform the fate intended for us.

11:47 We Hungarians and Poles know how to do this. We have been taught that

11:52 one can only look danger in the face if one is brave enough.

11:59 We must therefore drag the ancient virtue of courage out from under the silt of oblivion.

12:07 First of all we must put steel in our spines,

12:12 and we must answer clearly, with a voice loud enough to be heard far and wide,

12:19 the foremost, the single most important question determining our fate:

12:25 The question upon which the future of Europe stands or falls is this:

12:29 “Shall we be slaves or men set free — That is the question, answer me!”