Sembra che stiamo assistendo alla più grande manifestazione avvenuta finora a Budapest

The main opposition party, Tisza, has organized a massive rally on Hungary’s national holiday, October 23. The crowd is enormous. People are arriving from several directions; there’s an “official” march whose front has already reached the destination, while the end is still standing at the square where the gathering began and that area is still packed.

Many people in the crowd are saying they’ve never seen a demonstration this big before. Even Endre Hann, a well-known and experienced pollster, mentioned the same. The event was organized by Péter Magyar, the party’s leader.

Along the route, there are verse recitals, live reenactments recalling the 1956 revolution, and musical stops. The march also passed by the Russian Embassy, where people chanted “Ruszkik haza!” (“Russians go home!”) one of the slogans of the 1956 revolution, which feels just as relevant today.

For 80 days before the march, he travelled across the country, drawing huge crowds in many places. Thousands of people spoke with him and had the chance to ask questions. He visited even the smallest villages (including slums), personally talking to people in difficult circumstances, as well as larger towns and cities. In the past weeks, he also introduced several well-known experts. According to the polls, the Tisza Party continues to lead ahead of Fidesz.

Oh, and it’s raining.

It definitely feels like the largest we ever had, this is hundreds of thousands of people at the minimum, we have a line of 3 km or so made out of people who are marching to the heroes square

3 whole kilometres of people, marching

[’56-os prformance : r/hungary](https://www.reddit.com/r/hungary/comments/1oe2bke/56os_prformance/) – The “performance” about the historical events, with participants dressed in period clothing.

[Fentről is szép látszik 😉 Hősök tere pár perccel ezelőtt : r/hungary](https://www.reddit.com/r/hungary/comments/1oe3s4o/fentr%C5%91l_is_sz%C3%A9p_l%C3%A1tszik_h%C5%91s%C3%B6k_tere_p%C3%A1r_perccel/) – A picture taken from the plane, showing the crowd.

[Deák tér az óriáskerékről, 14:18 : r/hungary](https://www.reddit.com/r/hungary/comments/1oe2wo6/de%C3%A1k_t%C3%A9r_az_%C3%B3ri%C3%A1sker%C3%A9kr%C5%91l_1418/) – A video of the Ferris wheel (this is the starting point, where people wait for the march).

As an outsider, it’s quite amazing to me how much a country’s happenstance history and other arbitrary factors like geography etc. shapes its present.
We like to think that we control our fate but so much of it is just forces greater than any person or movement.

The reasons why Russians were never truly free for example had very little to do with human decisions.

Anyway, hoping to see a political change there nonetheless.

good good

I hope it will change something

This is so cool.

It’s definitely huge. The one at noon with Orbáns fans was not small either.

Is it pro-Viktor or contra-Viktor?

Say no to Orbán, say no to Putin! Freedom, Europe!
Our memories on this day belong to the heroes of the 1956 Revolution

Putin must be shitting his child-sized pants

Gives me hope 🥹

Ruszkik, haza! 🇭🇺