Fáklyaláng, 1964. június-október (5. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1964-10-23 / 10. szám
WE TRUST IN tOD and BELIEVE IN HUNGARY’S RESURRECTION EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE Jdklgaldng A MONTHLY REVIEW OF HUNGARIAN ISSUES FREE HUNGARIANS FOR FREE HUNGARY ILUME V, NUMBER 10 50c NEW YORK, OCTOBER 23, 1964 REVOLUTION Eight years have passed since October 23, 1956, the day which moved through the sky of history as a shining and unexpected mystic comet to illuminate the world and to point to as well as show a new road for mankind. The past eight years also gave a certain historic perspective to both the Revolution and to the Freedom Fight of 1956. Today, not even the most devoted enemies of the Hungarian people can deny the history shaping importance of those events. It must be equally obvious that from the present deadlock the only possible way out is to return to the example provided so heroically by the freedom fighters of that small nation. It became the duty of the living to tell the world why their fellow compatriots offered their lives. They Designs by Lajos Szalay, leading Hungarian graphic artist. OF THE ELITE must explain what motivated them in their struggle. They must also show the world what moved them in those days during which they have written history with their own blood. The living also have the sad but moving duty to explain to the world why so many thousands of fellow freedom fighters died in the streets of Budapest in October-November 1956, why so many thousands of them died before the Soviet-Communist firing squads or on the gallows after the brutal and bloody second Soviet attack on Hungary on November 4, 1956. Hungarian freedom fighters living in the free world pay tribute to the memories of the fallen heroes by giving the world the quintessence of the Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight. This they do by their own modest but honest means. Those historic days began with a peaceful demonstration of sympathy with the Polish people. It turned into an all-out Revolution after the AVH, the political terror-arm of the Communist regime, opened fire on the unarmed population. This Revolution has become a freedom fight when the Soviet occupation forces intervened at the request of the Soviet imposed and Sovietcontrolled Communist authorities and fired on a nation which rose against the terror of the “new class,” against those who betrayed the nation’s interests in order to retain the favor of the foreign oppressors. A nation of ten millions joined in a freedom fight against the Soviet Union to restore the independence of the country. October 23, 1956 also opened a new chapter in the history of revolutions and freedom fights because it was the first mass movement which was not organized in advance and was not supported from the outside. It was an unorganized, spontaneous but united manifestation of mankind's eternal quest for freedom. There were no leaders and those who came in the limelight did so because of their personal heroism. Fierce courage and heroic actions and not political intrigues characterized the heroes of those historic days. As the Revolution and the Freedom Fight of October-November 1956 were the noblest manifestations of the love of freedom and unselfishness they enabled the nation to give mankind something unprecedented: the “Revolution of the Elite.” Something of a new
