1956 – Leftist parties mark anniversary of revolution
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Members of opposition parties Democratic Coalition (DK), Socialists, Együtt, the Liberals, the Modern Hungary Movement (MoMa), Dialogue and Solidarity laid wreaths in commemoration of Hungary’s 1956 revolution at martyr Imre Nagy’s Budapest house on Monday.
Ágnes Kunhalmi of the Socialist Party said at the celebration that the current government “persecutes the freedom of opinion, controls the press and obstructs citizens’ initiatives and civil organisations”, which she said was reminiscent of a “very dark era of Hungarian history”, the Stalinist terror. “The real oppressors are not in Brussels but on government”, Kunhalmi said. They “appropriate public wealth, ruin education and Hungarians’ health by letting the health care system rot”, she said.
Speaking at a joint celebration with opposition Együtt, Dialogue Party leader Gergely Karácsony said in Budapest that the revolution was “not the cause of an ideology” but of the nation.
[…] Solidarity (SZOLIDARITÁS) e il Movimento per un’Ungheria Moderna (MoMa). In tale occasione, forti critiche sono state mosse nei confronti del governo di centro destra ungherese, guidato da Viktor Orbán, il quale non ha partecipato […]
No one should forget that it was the Hungarian Left who helped the USSR enslave the country. It was the Left and the Communist who drove 295,000+ Hungarians to flee to the West and killed and imprisoned thousand more.