Women Against War!
Together with patriotic women, we have launched a DPK petition so that we women can also make our voices heard amid the madness of war: https://dpkor.hu/nok-a-haboru-ellen/
In December, I visited Transcarpathia, in Mezőkaszony—just two hundred meters from the Hungarian border.
I met Hungarian women there: wives, mothers, and grandmothers. Women whose husbands did not come home, and women whose sons will never knock on the door again.
They still get up every morning, go to work, and carry on—but now they do so alone. Because war does not only kill on the front lines; it also destroys homes. Hungarian homes, just a stone’s throw away from us. And yet, far too little is said about this.
This week also marked the memorial day of the Don catastrophe. At times like this, it is worth stopping for a moment and remembering that Hungary knows exactly what the price of war means.
Not from theory or calculations, but from monuments, graves, and family tragedies. At the Don Bend, an entire generation was lost, and behind them remained Hungarian women who had to carry on with life alone—and with it, the history of Hungary.
That is why it is so important that we also send a message, so that everyone knows: women want peace.
We have just launched an online petition specifically addressed to girls, women, and mothers, encouraging them—independently of party politics—to stand up for peace and to raise their voices against war.
I would also very much like to encourage those women who, under the internal rules of Magyar Péter’s circle, have been forbidden from supporting Fidesz’s anti-war initiatives, to speak up freely as well, not to give in to this blackmail or coercion. And if they feel that it matters to them to raise their children in peace, that they do not want their brothers, fathers, or sons to be sent to war, and that they do not want to pay the price of this war either, then they should feel free to sign this petition as well.
🎭 Central Narrative
“Peace = a female moral truth”
The text suggests that any woman who does not support the petition is acting against women’s historical experience and moral duty.
1️⃣ Emotional legitimization through personal experience
“In December, I was in Transcarpathia…”
🔹 Technique: testimony + proximity
🔹 Effect:
- forces emotional identification
- elevates the speaker above the debate as an “eyewitness”
👉 Trick:
individual experience → general political conclusion
2️⃣ Historical parallel as moral blackmail
Don Bend, widows, lost generations
🔹 Technique: invocation of collective trauma
🔹 Effect:
- anyone who disagrees is framed as “disrespecting the victims”
- appropriation of historical memory
👉 Manipulation:
World War II ≠ today’s geopolitical situation
yet they are emotionally merged
3️⃣ “Women speak on behalf of women” – false representation
“So that we women can also make our voices heard”
🔹 Technique: identity appropriation
🔹 Problem:
- no mandate
- no pluralism (“women” ≠ a unified political bloc)
👉 Message:
a woman who thinks differently is “not a real woman”
4️⃣ Victim narrative + external enemy framing
“They forbade it, blackmail, coercion”
🔹 Technique: persecution narrative
🔹 Goal:
- construction of moral superiority
- demonization of an internal political opponent (Magyar Péter and his circle)
👉 Evidence: none — only assertion
5️⃣ False dilemma (black-and-white framing)
“Either you want peace, or you want war”
🔹 Technique: binary thinking
🔹 Reality:
- no discussion of diplomacy, security policy, or international law
- all nuance disappears
👉 Consequence:
exclusion of meaningful debate
6️⃣ Petition as a moral test
“They should feel free to sign”
🔹 Technique: moral pressure
🔹 Hidden message:
- you sign → good mother, good woman
- you don’t sign → indifferent / pro-war
⚠️ Overall picture
This text is not about peace in a policy sense, but about:
- emotional mobilization
- political use of historical trauma
- identity-based loyalty testing
🎯 Goal: to gain moral superiority, not dialogue.