Krónika, 1956 (13. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1956-11-15 / 11. szám
VOLUME XIII. ÉVFOLYAM. NEW YORK, N. Y., 1956 NOVEMBER. NO. 11. SZÁM. We Cannot Let Russian Armor Crush The People Of Hungary! The Hungarian people have recaptured their freedom through a storm of blood. Although the Russian tyrants and their Hungarian proconsuls invoked the force of iron and fire, although the powers of the West abetted the Russian butchery by their shameful inaction, the bravery and miraculous determination of the Hungarians compelled foreign rulers to yield before the hurricane of national revolution. The overturn in Hungary has brought the whole of Russia’s East totalitarian empire. From this center of infection the virus of national independence is spreading throughout the empire of Russian rule. None know this better than the directors of the totalitarian system themselves. The Russian imperialists stand to lose more than Hungary; they face the loss of all. Ominous signs indicate that the Kremlin rulers, desperate at the danger, have decided to gamble their future on a bloody attempt to crush the Hungarian rebels with the full force European empire to the boiling point. Poland, which furnished the spark for the Hungarian revolution, has been seething ever since, with the fate of theGomulka government is question from one day to the next. From Rumania come reports of student riots and demonstrations, of emergency troop movements, of frantic government attempts to pacify the aroused Hungarian minority in Transylvania. In East Germany there are student demonstrations, slowdown strikes, nervous warnings and military manifestations on the part of a frightened government. All these events are reverbrations of the stupendous explosion in Hungary, which has torn a wound in the flesh of Russia’s of their military machine. By the time these lines appear in print Russian mechanized divisions and jet bombers once again are pouring death and destruction on a people whose heroism is hardly paralleled in history. Can we permit the people of Hungary to expire? Can we force them to fight tanks with pistols and armored cars with pitchforks? All through the bitter torment of the past three weeks, the Hungarians begged for help from the West and received empty praise. They pleaded for arms and were sent editorials, Reporters in Budapest told of crowds surrounding their cars, asking, “Why wasn’t there even a Security Council resolution condemning the Soviet Union that the Képünknek hőse Botond ősapánk egyszerű fegyverével ment a gépfegyveres, tankos orosznak. *
