Hungarian Revolution remembrance 2021

15 Mar 2021 · 1 min

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In a brief commemorative address delivered in Budapest on 15 March 2021, Mario Sebok reflects on the 1848 Hungarian Revolution that secured national independence from the Austro‑Hungarian Empire. He likens the former empire to a multilingual, EU‑like entity of 14‑16 languages, and invokes Edmund Burke and his own grandfather to stress that societies that ignore history risk repeating its mistakes. Sebok warns against imposing cultural homogeneity, arguing that forced uniformity can provoke rebellion, and calls for the European Union and other societies to respect and preserve distinct languages and cultural roots.

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Budapest, 15th of March, 2021. Today is a national holiday celebrating the 1848 Revolution. These guys here did to build this nation as an independent nation from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was something like 14 or 16 different languages, something like the European Union of the 1800s. And as Edmund Burke and my grandfather always said, those that don't learn from history may succumb to relive it. So that we in the European Union today may learn from today 1880, 1848. Not to push people over the edge because people will rebel and their national roots will overtake any sense of global tyranny or regional tyranny. May we learn to value the differences and not push homogeneity to make everybody feel homogeneous, but value their unique languages, Culture area.