I’m not Hungarian but I was at Batthany ter from 6PM to 2AM and experiencing history by yourself is much different than seeing it on TV. There was a group of high schoolers in front of me who were hugging among eachother constantly once they knew Tisza won, broke my heart.
When I was coming back, on the shuttle bus to Warsaw Chopin a Hungarian woman was watching a recap of the election night smiling, and when a bird’s eye video of the crowd appeared she was shaking her head in disbelief/pride. Yes, I was watching her phone from above - standing - while she was sitting, shut up
With those kind of rosy-eyed stories in Poland we say “and then the bus driver sat up and started clapping” and indeed I may be on an emotional high compared to people who just saw the facts on TV, though I don’t even feel a fraction of some Hungarians may be feeling.
Also I couldn’t join in on any of the chants but the simplest “-ria, -ria, Hungaria” lol
I’m not Hungarian but I was at Batthany ter from 6PM to 2AM and experiencing history by yourself is much different than seeing it on TV. There was a group of high schoolers in front of me who were hugging among eachother constantly once they knew Tisza won, broke my heart.
When I was coming back, on the shuttle bus to Warsaw Chopin a Hungarian woman was watching a recap of the election night smiling, and when a bird’s eye video of the crowd appeared she was shaking her head in disbelief/pride. Yes, I was watching her phone from above - standing - while she was sitting, shut up
With those kind of rosy-eyed stories in Poland we say “and then the bus driver sat up and started clapping” and indeed I may be on an emotional high compared to people who just saw the facts on TV, though I don’t even feel a fraction of some Hungarians may be feeling.
Also I couldn’t join in on any of the chants but the simplest “-ria, -ria, Hungaria” lol