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The Municipality of Debrecen County City organised a commemoration on 4 June, 2025, on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the Trianon Peace Treaty, the Day of National Unity.
The events began in the morning with the raising of the Hungarian flag on Kossuth Square and lowering it to half-mast, and then in the afternoon on Dósa nádor Square, the commemorators could watch a joint programme entitled “The Hungarians Flee to the Heart” by the Főnix Children and Youth Folk Dance Ensemble and the Bürkös Orchestra, who then marched together with the performers to Bem Square to Émile Guillaume’s statue, “Hungarian Pain.”
Here, Member of Parliament László Pósán gave a speech. In his words, “More than a century ago, 105 years ago, on this day, the bells rang the alarm in every Hungarian-populated settlement, thus letting everyone know that in Trianon the Western powers had given a devastating verdict to the thousand-year-old Hungarian state and had decided to mutilate it to a degree that was essentially equivalent to a death sentence. It is undeniable that the way the victors treated Hungary after World War I was more than a lesson to a defeated country. The injustice of the Trianon dictate revealed a hatred against Hungarians that surpassed all imagination. The mutilation of the country revealed a cold and cynical calculation aimed at bleeding us out and destroying us,” László Pósán conceived.
Before the speech and the wreath-laying at the statue, the commemorators could watch a programme titled “The sky is splitting apart!” Participants included actor of the Csokonai National Theatre, István Papp; folk singer Lilla Tóth; the Debrecen Garrison Orchestra; the Főnix Children’s and Youth Folk Dance Ensemble; and the Bürkös Orchestra.
Source and photo credit:debrecen.hu
