Posted on 10/23/2018 2:55:47 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Sixty-two years ago, a peaceful student demonstration in Budapest turned to a bloodbath in a single, explosive moment. The Communist secret police fired on the ranks of the students, slaying many on the spot.
It is no exaggeration to say that this uprising captured the attention and imagination of the world. For good reason, it is widely known as the first major threat to Soviet control in Central Europe.
Despite the shining promise and rallying cry for a “Free Hungary,” that ideal was not to be realized for at least another generation. The Soviets responded quickly and cruelly. On Nov. 4, the Soviet Red Army, acting in breach of promises and international law, attacked Hungary. The rest, so they say, is history.
But let us never forget what happened in the days following. Let us never forget the students and soldiers, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters, who attempted the impossible.
Even in the face of death, they resisted the countless tanks and guns of the most supreme military force in Europe. Still more lost their lives facing the gallows, firing squads and secret police in the days, months and years to come.
Although the revolution failed, its consequences have been felt ever since, particularly in what is now considered the democratic transition in Central Europe, and in the lives of diaspora communities around the world.
Throughout and following the uprising, over 200,000 refugees left the country and 37,000 of them were admitted to Canada. My father was among the 3,000 who settled in Alberta.
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So sad.
And they are an amazing people. Hungry was the first one to put up a fence when the Muslims started invading Europe. And she is still saying no to that invasion. She has better self-protection instincts than the rest of Europe, other than her former East Bloc allies.
They’re tough people. God bless them.
They’re one of the countries holding the line against the Islamonazi hordes, along with Poland and Italy.
It’s an amazing thing when people remember WHO THEY ARE, and WHERE THEY CAME FROM, and stand up for themselves against leftist savages and their proxies.
About time we do the same here.
This video is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8itF62yIJg
The Hungarian foreign minister is dealing this absolutely psychotic BBC reporterette. She is SEETHING with rage because he won’t agree with her regarding letting moslem savagaes into his country.
He “stands his ground”... chuckle.... and defends his People, his Country, his Culture, and his land.
Like we should be doing.
My Sister and Brother-in-Law spend 9 months every year in Europe. They use Budapest as their base partly because it is cheaper than most of Europe and partly because they like it. They can travel all over Europe free by train because of their age.
Some of the things they have told me are that Hungary is the most beautiful country in Europe. The Hungarians are different from others. Unlike Scotland for example, they will not stop and offer you help if you need it. On the other hand they are really good to help you if you ask.
They have always liked their landlords. They have had to ask for a few things occasionally and they always get it.
Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1956 was the Hungarian Freedom Fighter. The uprising made us all see, that communism stays in power only by force.
“Hungry was the first one to put up a fence when the Muslims started invading Europe.”
Read about the Muslim invasion of 1541 where the Muslims visited the Christian Hungarians as friends and tricked them into being captured and conquered, leading to Hungary being under Muslim rule for 150 years.
Siege of Buda (1541)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Buda_(1541)
The Ottomans then occupied the city, which in its turn was celebrating the liberation, with a trick: Suleyman invited the infant John II Sigismund Zápolya with the Hungarian noblemen into his tent, meanwhile the Turkish troops began to slowly infiltrate into the fort as “tourists” seemingly in admiration of the architecture of the buildings.
However, at a sudden alert they wielded their weapons and disarmed the guards and the whole garrison thereafter. At the same time, the Hungarian noblemen felt uncomfortable in the sultan’s tent and wanted to leave. In that moment, on the outcry of the sultan “The black soup (coffee) is still to come!” (”Hátra van még a feketeleves!” in Hungarian) the Turkish soldiers disarmed the Hungarian envoy.
Should read:
" For good reason, it is WRONGLY known as the first major threat to Soviet control in Central Europe."
The Germans tried it 3 years earlier, in June, 1953.
Just a bit of inconvenient, and thus widely ignored, history.
Still waiting for the same ultimately favorable outcome of Tiananmen Square.
My girlfriend rode her bike by the square shortly after the Chinese army quelled that uprising. She couldn’t get very close because the public was kept far away.
But she could still smell the stench of burning human flesh.
Ironically, Hungary was also the first country to tear down the Iron Curtain.
God bless Free Hungary, God bless Freedom!
That Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces were led by MSU Ivan Konev
Future Premier Yuri Andropov was the Soviet ambassador to Hungary at that time. The sight of Hungarian secret policemen and other Party officials hanged from lampposts by angry mobs chilled him to the bone, and convinced him that any advances of Soviet influence were to be defended at any cost. As demonstrated by his advocacy of the invasions of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and of Afghanistan in 1979 (as KGB chief under Brezhnev), that defense included open military force.
And “progressives” were and are perfectly fine with the suppression.
Thanks
I dated a Lady for a few years that was born in the US of Hungarian Parents. I never got to meet Her Father but did know Her Anya (Mother) when She came back to live with Us after Her Father had passed away. Her Father was involved in the Revolution smuggling Firearms in and People out of the Country. They both could have come to America if They wanted to as Both had US Citizenship. They had escaped on foot when the nazis took over. But They were both hardcore Patriots and returned after WWII ended. Anya was still a tough ‘ol Bird, I came home from work one day to find Her scrubbing the Kitchen floor including under the refrigerator ON Her hands and knees !!! Mind you She was 88 years old at the time.
old country old school...
Redpill Shark: French flee to Hungary: Escaping Mass Migration
https://youtu.be/GqwZKT3lsZo
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