[UPDATED] The Spirit of Freedom

Day 1,577, 02:13 • Published in Hungary Hungary • by AttilaFlagellumDei
Magyar verzió ma nincs, ez a szövetségeseinknek, barátainknak, testvéreinkek szól ))

As the current Hungarian MoFA, and on behalf of our government and our entire nation, I salute all our brothers in arms from ONE, EPIC and ABC, as well as all those who don’t always fight on our side, but for who we have mutual respect! \o/

You may not all be very familiar with Hungarian history, but today is our national holiday. Today we celebrate that on march 15th, 1848 the Hungarian revolution for independence from the Habsburg empire started. Initially this revolution was successful, but eventually, in 1849, this revolution was crushed, but only by the joint armies of the Austrian and Russian empires, two major European powers at the time. Sounds a bit like another Hungarian revolution, right?

Indeed, our history is the story of fighting for Freedom. The Habsburgs were not the first and not the last to try to take it from us, but we always fought for it, and got it back, although over the centuries we had to pay with the lives of, literally, millions of our nation’s finest sons and daughters. Just to give you an idea of our tremendous losses, in the late middle ages, Hungary’s population was the same size Great Britain’s. Today, Hungary has 10 million inhabitants while Great Britain around 60 million...

But eventually, we freed ourselves from every oppressor, even if they outnumbered us many times. And what’s more, we were often the nail in the coffin of the empires who tried to subdue us. Just look at them one by one: the Mongol and Tatar empires who raided us and large parts of central and eastern Europe in the late middle ages, the Ottoman empire who kept a large part of our country occupied for 150 years, the Habsburg empire who did so for the next 150 years, nazi Germany who tried to use us a puppet state, and lastly the Soviet Union, who bloodily crushed our freedom fight in 1956, which many historians consider to be one of the major events leading eventually to the USSR’s downfall. All these evil empires dispeared into the history books, but Hungary still stands, beaten and shaken many times, but we and our love for freedom were never broken and never will be!

But it’s a mistake to think that the revolution of 1848 was the fight of only Hungarians! I want to point out only two examples of leading figures who were not Hungarian by birth but they joined us and fought being one of us, because they believed in the same principle of freedom. One is Józef Bem, the Polish general who became our national hero because of his outstandig contribution, the other is Jovan Damjanic, a Hungarian general altough Serb by birth, who also became a Hungarian national hero, who never lost a single battle during his entire carreer, but he was one of the 13 Hungarian generals, who were executed by the Habsburgs in the city of Arad on October 6, 1849. This ancient Hungarian city, by the way, lies in the eRepublik “Crisana”. I want to stress that these 2 fine men never gave up their nationality! If you fight with us for freedom, we will accept you as one of us, no matter where you came from!

Therefore we invite all of you to be Hungarians with us for one day! Fight with us for freedom! here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/military/battlefield/23227 And after our victory celebrate freedom with some of Hungary’s finest products in the liberated Hungarian cities Szatmár, Nagyvárad and Arad 😉



Hail Freedom!
Hail ONE!
Hail Hungary!

UPDATE

the following persons:

Aexil Kong (Macedonian President) Battle Hero round 1
Voix of Macedonia (Macedonian MoFA) Battle Hero round 2
Pedjicaa, brave Serb warrior, Battle Hero round 3

will be awarded honorary Hungarian citizenship for life for their contributions! And for flushing 40 million damage of the Yeti MasterCard hero down the toilet!