Fáklyaláng, 1971. január-október (12. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)

1971-10-23 / 10. szám

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FACTS ABOUT THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION (continued from page 9)

the Hungarian people were violated by the Hungarian Governments prior to 23 October, especially up to the autumn of 1955, and that such violations have been resumed since 4 November. The Committee is convinced that the numerous accounts of inhuman treatment and torture by the AVH are to be accepted as true. On the evidence, it is also convinced that numbers of Hungarians, including some women, were deported to the Soviet Union and that some may not have been returned to their homes. These deportations were designed to break the back of the revolution. Action taken by the Hungarian people in their spontaneous uprising succeeded in ridding them for a few days of the apparatus of police terror. This democratic achievement of a united people was indeed threatened by a form of “counter-revolution” and it was to this that it succumbed. However, the “counterrevolution” consisted in the setting up by Soviet armed forces of Mr. Kádár and his colleagues in opposition to a Government which enjoyed the overwhelming support of the people of Hungary;

(xii) Following the second Soviet intervention on 4 November, there has been no evidence of popular support for Mr. Kádár’s Government. Mr. Kádár has successively abandoned most of the points from the revolutionary programme which he had at first promised to the Hungarian people. On the central question of the withdrawal of Soviet troops, he has moved from complete acceptance of the nation’s wishes to a refusal to discuss the subject in present circumstances. Against the workers, he has proceeded step by step to destroy their power and that of the Workers’ Councils. Capital punishment is applicable to strike activities. The processes of justice have been distorted by the institution of special police and special courts and by the ignoring of the rights of the accused. The Social Democratic Party has again been forcibly liquidated. General elections have been postponed for two years. Writers and intellectuals are subjected to repressive measures. The Hungarian workers have shown no sign of support for Mr. Kádár’s Government or for the prospect of continuous Soviet occupation. Only a small fraction of the 190,000 Hungarians, mostly young people, who fled the country have accepted his invitation to return. The peasants have reason to be grateful to Mr. Nagv for his attitude towards collectivization of agriculture and forced deliveries of farm produce;

(xiii) In the light of the extent of foreign intervention consideration of the Hungarian question by the United Nations was legally proper and, moreover, it was requested by a legal Government of Hungary. In the matter of human right, Hungary has accepted specific international obligations in the Treaty of Peace. Accordingly, the Committee does not regard objections based on paragraph 7 of Article 2 of the Charter as having validity in the present case. A massive armed intervention by one Power on the territory of another, with the avowed

FREEDOM FIGHTERS’ PARLIAMENT (Continued from page 5)

for the freedom of the people, for the independence of the country, and for a truly democratic system of government. Their sacrifices brought about a political and moral synthesis that, eventually, will brighten the future of mankind. In this political and moral synthesis the tenets and practices of Communism are rejected, and only those ideas and practices are adopted from the western political and social system that are contributing positively to a truly democratic system.

The Hungarian Freedom Fighter Parliament, ever since its establishment in 1966, holds an annual regular session. The Parliament’s Executive Committee regularly invites leaders of Hungarian democratic parties in exile, the heads of Hungarian organizations in the United States and abroad, outstanding Hungarian scientists, artists, literary figures living in the free world, and representatives of the emigre Hungarian press, to attend the session’s various events. Besides them, all Hungarians are welcome to attend the proceedings.

This year, the Parliament’s plenary session will be held on October 23, 1971, in the Hotel Summit, Embassy Suite D, 1st and Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Revolution and Freedom Fight. Hungarians and their friends, defenders of the cause of freedom of the Hungarian people, and of all the peoples of the world are all cordially invited. —ErnoHoka

HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GUARDS (continued from page 4)

those who do not seek offices, who do not beg for alms, who do not ascend on the political ladder by grasping the tails of various parties and agencies.

It has become quite obvious that in 15 years the free world had acquiesced in the Soviet colonial rule in Hungary. On the 15th anniversary of these heroic and tragic events no one mentions any more the United Nations resolutions, no one speaks about the enforcement of these resolutions. No one demands the withdrawal of Soviet troops even after the repetition of 1956 in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

We, the true freedom fighters, will never give up our fight for the freedom of the Hungarian people, even if we are doomed to failure from the beginning. The purpose of our life is to achieve what we wanted to achieve in 1956: the liberation of Hungary from Soviet rule and Communist oppression.

Today, the fast-moving events clearly indicate that the affairs of the world have to be settled soon. This has become inevitable. We, Hungarian freedom fighters will be on our guard posts as soon as the need arises once again.

On the 15th anniversary of our glorious revolution and freedom fight this is our message to friends and foes alike. — Gergely Pongratz

intention of interfering with the internal affairs öf the country must, the Soviet’s own definition of aggression, be a matter of international concern.