Debrecen4U June 5, 2025

National Unity Day in Debrecen – 2025

The Municipality of Debrecen organised a commemoration on 4 June 2025, marking the 105th anniversary of the Trianon Peace Treaty and 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.”

Member of Parliament László Pósán gave a speech there. He said that “More than a century ago, 105 years ago on this day, the alarm bells were sounded in every Hungarian settlement, letting everyone know that the Western powers had passed a sentence of annihilation on the thousand-year-old Hungarian state at Trianon, and decided to mutilate it to a degree that was essentially tantamount to a death sentence. It is undeniable that the way the victors treated Hungary after the First World War was more than a lesson for a defeated country. The injustice of the Trianon dictate revealed a hatred for Hungarians that was unimaginable. The mutilation of the country showed a cold and cynical calculation aimed at our bleeding and destruction.”

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