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Minister: ‘Poles are our eternal and trusted friends’
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Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, called Poles Hungary’s “eternal and trusted friends”, in his keynote speech at a conference in Budapest on Thursday.
Gulyás addressed the conference hosted by the University of Public Administration (NKE) commemorating the 40th anniversary of Poland’s leaders imposing martial law.
Gulyás noted that the histories of
the two nations were closely linked,
adding that their interests and values intertwined as well. “These values include individual and collective freedoms, national self-determination, and the fight for these causes,” he said.
He said the communist crackdown on the Polish people in 1981 had been a “siege” rather than a declaration of a state of emergency, as it had been called by Hungary’s communist leaders at the time. Because the military intervention in Afghanistan had left the Soviet Union too weak to intervene in Poland, “the communists there decided to impose the harshest measures,” Gulyás said. Wojciech Jaruzelski’s coup led to bloodshed, the internment of tens of thousands of people and violent crackdowns on protests and strikes, he added.
He said the communist crackdown on the Polish people in 1981 had been a “siege” rather than a declaration of a state of emergency, as it had been called by Hungary’s communist leaders at the time. Because the military intervention in Afghanistan had left the Soviet Union too weak to intervene in Poland, “the communists there decided to impose the harshest measures,” Gulyás said. Wojciech Jaruzelski’s coup led to bloodshed, the internment of tens of thousands of people and violent crackdowns on protests and strikes, he added.
Poland is our best friend.
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