Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony and Rafał Trzaskowski, his Warsaw counterpart, marked the Day of Polish-Hungarian Friendship in a joint video posted on Karácsony’s Facebook page.
Karácsony noted that Polish and Hungarian patriots had helped one another in the uprisings of 1848 and 1956, and in efforts to topple communist dictatorship in the 1980s, and the two countries joined NATO and the EU at the same time.
“Today, Polish and Hungarian democrats should fight together against the governments of their countries, which have systematically dismantled democracy and the rule of law, and weakened the international alliance which has been a firm guarantee for democracy and prosperity for the longest time in their history,” Karácsony said.
The Budapest mayor also referred to the “Russian military aggression deeply imprinted in the historical memory of Hungarians and Poles” and called for joint solidarity with Ukrainians.
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