Tag: communism
Reconstruction of square near Parliament gets preliminary consent
The memorial of Imre Nagy will be relocated to nearby Jászai Mari Square
#budapest #hungary
Why is there a hole in the centre of the Hungarian flag today? – photos, video
In the #horrible #Rákosi-era, the #Hungarian #communists slavishly copied the #coatofarms of the #SovietUnion, but #people hated it.
#Hungary #October23 #Revolution #FreedomFight #Budapest #protester #History
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Budapest park to be named after Nelson Mandela
A park in #Budapest’s south-western District 11 will be named after #Nelson #Mandela
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LMP: Moral obligation to reveal secret agents of Communist era
#LMP #lustration #bill #communism
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Christian Democrats mark totalitarian dictatorship victims’ day
The European Day of #Remembrance for #Victims of #Totalitarian #Regimes has since 2011 been marked on August 23
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Polish Sejm speaker pays tribute to Hungarian martyrs of Prague Spring on 50th anniversary
The memory of the martyrs who lit themselves on fire in protest of the invasion
#Czechoslovakia #PragueSpring #Hungary #Poland #Romania #history #sejm
I was in North Korea and they were watching me – A Hungarian journalist in Pyongyang
#North #Korea through #Hungarian eyes, details:
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Hungary commemorates martyred 1956 PM Imre Nagy
PM Imre Nagy, #Hungary’s legitimate head of government in #1956, was executed on this day 60 years ago
#hungarian #history #commemoration #cccp #communism
Fidesz MEPs call on Juncker to cancel speech on Marx anniversary
#Juncker is scheduled to speak at the opening of an exhibition on Marx’s work – #Fidesz
#communism #history
1 May – The Labour Day in Hungary
1 May is often linked to #socialism but it has much deeper roots
#Hungary #Hungarian #worker #celebration #holiday #parade
Election 2018 – Socialist-Párbeszéd candidate Karácsony: Election ‘brings back spirit of 1989’
He argued that #Hungary back then, too, was “in search of a new #future after having torn down an #autocracy”
#HungaryElection2018 #EuropeanParliament #Hungarian #Revolutionof1989
Day of Victims of Communism marked in Hungary
February 25 – The memorial day of martyrs of communism
#hungary #hungarian #communism #history
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Islamic State used weapons made in the communist Hungary
According to a newly published report, 132 weapons used by the Islamic State and manufactured in Hungary were found in Iraq and Syria.
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Chaplain of Rábakethely János Brenner, the martyr of the Kádár dictatorship will be beatified next summer
The priest was murdered on December 15, 1957 by brutal cruelty… 🙁
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LMP calls on government to re-establish ties with West instead of ‘eastern opening’
Foreign ministry officials have held 77 high-level talks with leaders of communist countries since Viktor Orbán’s government came to power seven years ago
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Victims of communism biographies to be published after October Revolution anniversary
A new biography will be posted every day
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1956 – Leftist parties mark anniversary of revolution
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.
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October 23 – Celebrations of 1956 anniversary start in Budapest
“Not only Hungary but Europe and the whole world have much to thank to the Hungarian freedom fighters of 1956.”
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Orbán marks 55th anniversary of Checkpoint Charlie Museum
55th anniversary of the establishment of the #Checkpoint #Charlie #Museum in #Berlin
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Fidesz blames former president Göncz, top court for failed law of justice after 1989-90
During this time Viktor Orbán was also sitting in the Hungarian parliament
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