It is not only veterans who say this; the Hungarian Socialist Party is the legal heir of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, which was formed for the very purpose of putting down the revolution. They have no qualms about owning and spending the funds of the commie party, while at the same time they shed crocodile tears for the people the same party murdered. How typical of leftists.
Communism ended peacefully in Hungary--but I often wish it hadn't. Imagine Germany's National Socialist Workers' Party changing its name to National Socialist Party and nominating the sons and cronies of Nazi officers to be elected into the Bundestag. The reason this is so impossible is that the Nazis met a crushing defeat, and their vicious acts were exposed for all the world to see. In Eastern Europe, Communism has collapsed, but the communists are still around, whitewashed and promoted by the liberal media, while members Fidesz, the major rival of the Socialist Party, are being demonized like the Jews were in the Third Reich.
I do hope that the tyrannies of Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and their likes, will NOT meet their ends peacefully like European Communism did, but more like Nazi Germany did!
Civic Circles, a grass-roots organization close to Fidesz
A little correction here: there is no one organization called Civic Circles, but there are thousands "civic circles," or small groups formed by people who support Fidesz.
Does anyone know what the situation is in Romania?
Are the Communists still a significant power in the government, or did the execution of the Ceausescus on Christmas 1989 after a couple of weeks of fighting put them in a much weaker position there?