After Ukrainians, Lithuanians try to school Hungary on 1956

“Neither the Ukrainians or the Lithuanians have any right to school us,” announced Zsolt Jeszenszky in the Pesti TV Politikai Hobbista (Political Hobbyist) television show. The host was reacting to the messages that Lithuanian actors addressed to audiences in Hungarian during their performances in the MITEM International Theater Festival. Attila Vidnyánszky, the director of the National Theater commented on the matter: “despite this, we still maintain our own opinions and will continue to.”

We regret that the Lithuanian companies ignored this fact and presented a one-sided view of Hungarians on this matter,

– they wrote in the statement.

Attila Vidnyánszky, director of the National Theater and host of the MITEM festival reacted to the Lithuanian political messages at his audience conference. The director said:

“Everyone is trying to tell us how to do things, one after the other. We’ve been living like this for a thousand years: the Tatars, the Turkish, the Austrians, the Germans all tried to tell us how to live because they know better; the communists forced us to do as they please for 40 years. The

Americans also seem to know very well how exactly to live, and now they’re telling everyone how to – just as they them in Iraq, in Syria. Now we see that there is another people, the Lithuanian people, that want to tell us how to live.”

Despite this, we still maintain our own opinions and will continue to

– affirmed Vidnyánszky.

Borítókép: The National Theater organized a special Ukrainian Solidarity Day within the framework of MITEM with the participation of Ukrainian artists (Photo: National Theater)