Posted on 11/01/2017 5:46:19 PM PDT by marshmallow
Monday was the 61st anniversary of the popular uprising against Communist rule in Hungary. The speech below was delivered for the occasion by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the square next to the Museum of Terror in Budapest.
In his speech Mr. Orbán mentions the thirty-foot bronze statue of Stalin that was demolished during the Revolution of 1956. The dictator’s boots were all that remained, and the citizens of Budapest scaled the plinth beneath the truncated statue to place Hungarian flags in them. The photo at the top of this post shows the moment just before those flags were raised.
The Hungarian Revolution was an inspiration to the Free World in 1956, and it remains an inspiration today. For ten days the Hungarian nation regained its independence as a sovereign state. There was no hope of success in the long term against the Soviet behemoth, but for that proud moment Hungarians knew that they, as a people, had not surrendered their identity nor abandoned their dignity.
Then the Soviet tanks arrived in Budapest. Block by block, house by house, the Revolution was crushed. A compliant puppet government was once again installed, and Hungary regained its status as a Soviet vassal, which it kept for thirty-three more years.
Two years after the Revolution, Imre Nagy, the leader of the failed rebellion, was executed. His body was buried face down, with hands and feet bound by barbed wire, in the public cemetery of Budapest.
I recommend the Wikipedia entry on the Revolution of 1956, which provides a fairly detailed account of events. An excerpt:
At about the same time, a large crowd gathered at the Radio Budapest building, which was heavily guarded by the ÁVH [state security police]. The flash point was reached as a delegation attempting.....
(Excerpt) Read more at gatesofvienna.net ...
Orban is the best!!!
We were really po`d here because Ike did NOTHING while Magyars threw Molotov cocktails at Soviet tanks and drove them back across the border. I was only a kid then and I heard the Hungarians on the SW radio yelling for help from the USA. After that I really didn`t give a dam about IKE anymore.
You can be a globalist Free Trader or a patriot but not both!
Here’s the official English translation of the speech on the Hungarian government’s web site:
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech on the 61st anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight
http://www.kormany.hu/en/the-prime-minister/the-prime-minister-s-speeches/prime-minister-viktor-orban-s-speech-on-the-61st-anniversary-of-the-1956-revolution-and-freedom-fight
At any mention of Orban, I tend to link in this thread:
Orban’s Historical Speech Puts Hungary on a War Footing (speaks truth about Muslim immigration)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411401/posts
The transcript of that speech is in post 5.
Orban is awesome.
BKM
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