1987. május (53-73. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2

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The ceremony was ahout to conclude when two bouquets of flowers were placed alongside the wraiths. György Gadó brought the first the ribhon of which read: "He who saves even one sóul only, can savé the world" /Talmud/.This bouquet came from "Shalom", the well-known Hungárián underground Jewish peace group. The second bouquet's ribbon read:"To the hero of anti-r&zi struggle,_a victim of the Soviet system. From the Hungárián democratic opposition." This bouquet was brought to the monument by Tamás Molnár, Tibor Philipp and Gáspár Miklós Tamás.

Although speakers were first swiftly switched off, then brayed loud music, Tamás Molnár, leader of the independent art group "INCONMJ", was able to complete his speech on behalf of the Hungárián democratic opposition.

Tamás Molnár reminded his audience: "We stand before the statue of a humanist who refused mass murder no matter of the system that gives his name to it. Wallenberg is still young, at the age of 75» when his voice rings out clearly, perhaps from the grave, perhaps from prison: Do nőt stand by and do nothing!"

"We stand before the statue of a mán", continued Tamás Molnár.

"it is a strange statue. It bears only the name: Raoul Wallenberg. When and where was he bőm? When did he die? Where is he buried? There are no indications. Nor does a legend teli, who he was and what he had done. As if all knew it! As if his name had nőt been immersed in silence fór forty years in this country where a political monomania left hecatombs and where he, a stranger had to come to stand up to Wholesale murder."

"The silence lasted fór forty years", said the orator of the opposition. "And this silence was effusive. Fow that the silence has been lifted, let us hope that the words now spoken will nőt be as untrue as the silence had been. One can already read low hiríts in the press that Wallenberg was connected with American espionage. These hints attempt to try and justify those who had abducted and inprisoned him." They would expect us to believe them. "To believe them though they have twisted the very words of humán language: oppression means liberty, war stands fór peace.

To believe that what happened, had happened a long time ago, during the Stalinist éra, and is long pást. All this we are ex- pected to believe, though tens of thousands of bodies and hundreds of thousands of souls are being tortured today by tyranny's sound-proof machinery in the dark corners of their empire."

One article points .out: It desecrates Wallenberg's memory to let his death's significance outweigh his life's example. This is true. Bút to ignore the circumstances of his death is just as unworthy of his memory, his life's sacrifice."The same article wams': 'We may nőt delay our task in finding out the true story of Wallenberg's life.' Yes! - we cry, fór we know that nőt only one man's story will unfold, bút the workings of oppression's satanic mill."

The speech was undisturbed by police action. At 4 pm, those present quietly dispersed.