Magyar News, 1993. szeptember-1994. augusztus (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1993-12-01 / 4. szám
Volume IV, Issue 4 Bridgeport, December 1993 Monthly Publication in Cooperation of the local Hungarian Churches & Organization JURASSIC PARK A POLITICAL ANALOG “It is assumed by paleontologists that dinosaurs ruled the world for over 160 million years. Among those giant reptiles the Tyrannosaurus Rex, TRex, was the safest and most secure. Its huge saber-like teeth and enormous size, supported by frightening claws, made this dinosaur the king of all lizards. The long days of the dinosaurs however ended fast. One immense meteor from outer space crashed into the world, blasting a huge crater, spilling billions of tons of dust into the air, causing an arti ficial chill and darkness. The dinosaur, the safest of all of creatures could not handled such a cataclysmic change and died, leaving behind a legacy of terror and some petrified bones. Human history teaches us that nations and societies, all social, economic and political systems, do share the fate of the dinosaur. Societies do grow and change but eventually they become living fossils and one unexpected historic turn of events can tip them over and they die. In our time, which is considered to be the post-Marxist/post-Communistera, we have wi messed the extinction of a socio-political dinosaur — the Soviet Empire. In its high days it was a truly terrible TRex. Its claws were made by thousands of nuclear armed intercontinental missiles. Its saber teeth contained the world’s largest conventional army. Its centralized police system controlled all areas of life, and due to its insatiable appetite, it mercilessly devoured neighboring states. President Reagan was correct when he called that beast “the Evil Empire.” Yet in spite of its profound power it could not avoid the fate of the dinosaur. The Soviet TRex was safe from all sides, from all conceivable foreign enemies, but one unexpected event, an unpredictable calamity, created an environment in which this Dinosaur Empire could not survive. A revolution, like a heavenly meteor, crashed and dislocated the world, creating new conditions that the Soviet Dragon, in spite of its terrific power could not handle. This Soviet “dinosaur” had a short life span some 75 years, but through its bloody history, its rule of terror, its forced labor camps it was able to cut down millions of victims with such merciless determination as one would expect only from a cold blooded reptile. Historians insist that the meteor, which eventually killed the Soviet Dinosaur was the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. True the Revolution was devoured by the beast but it could not handle the aftermath; the new conditions which shattered the once favorable climate of the Red TRex. We are here today to celebrate the appearance of that glorious meteor, the Hungarian Revolution, and also to rejoice over the extinction of the Soviet Dragon. Let us now examine some of those inevitable factors which were triggered by the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and which ultimately led to the extinction of the Soviet social, political and economic systems. What were those forces, unleashed by the revolutions’ meteor, which found that political animal, that Soviet Dinosaur unprepared and unable to cope? 1. President Lincoln said once jokingly, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can ’ t fool all of the people all of the time.” The Soviet TRex did not recognize this truth. It was powerful as long as it could fool and terrorize all of the people all of the time. But when some, like the Hungarian Freedom Fighters were not willing to be fooled and terrorized any longer their stand became contagious. More and more people refused to be fooled. The terrible reptile did crush those first heroes of resistance but an irreversible process started and every liberated person from the foolishness of the lizard on became a blow which eventually killed the beast. One more quotation could help us to comprehend the incomprehensible fall and death of the Soviet Dinosaur. It is from Jesus Christ. He said once: “Man cannot live by bread alone!” Indeed it was assumed by the Soviet Lizard that man is primarily an economic animal. That is to say, if one’s basic materialistic needs are met one would be satisfied. Such a view takes away the fundamental dignity of man. We need freedom to express our creativity, we need worship to feed our souls, we need free contact with each other, and we need free travel to discover and experience the world. The ideological uniform which was forced on everyone became the straight jacket of a huge concentration camp, an animal farm, a frightening toyland, for the pleasure of the Terrible Dinosaur.” Then he showed an old, yellow newspaper. It was published on November 2nd, 1956 in Budapest. He, as a young student, bought this paper that day. It contains those 25 demands which triggered the revolution. These demands are basicfundamental requests that should be granted to all nations and to every human being. Among others they asked the UN to come and help in achieving such basic rights. “Well, we know,” continued Rev. Medyesy, ’’what happened soon after this newspaper was published. The UN never arrived. The West, like today in Bosnia, only sent used clothing and food shipments and a clear signal was given by inactivity to the Red Dragon: it could use its claws and teeth against the hapless victim. The physical aspects of the Revolution were destroyed, but the spiritual parts were beyond the reach of the red dinosaur, because faith, values and ideas are indestructible. And those ideas were growing, spreading lights and lessening darkness in the land of the dinosaur. The aftermath of that glorious meteor of 1956 eventually killed the beast. There is a movie today with perhaps the largest box-office success of any: Jurassic Park. In it, scientists, using bio-engineering were able to revive dinosaurs. And those terrible lizards eventually almost consumed their recreators. It gave me a chilly lesson. There are still people today in Russia and elsewhere who are willing to resuscitate the dead Soviet TRex. Our task is to heal the wounds created by that monster in the life of millions of innocent victims, and to be vigilant. The Dinosaur should not walk again on the face of the earth. Humans and dinosaurs do not go together. They never did and they never shall.” * * * This speech was delivered October 24th at the monument "Hungary 1956." The program enveloping this was organized by the Hungarian Committee of Norwalk. Participants were Committee President Levente Serfözö, Elizabeth Dudás Hevesy, Father S lephenBalint, Peter Jancso, Sarika Kovats and Margit Fekete Csóványos. Norwalk's Mayor, the Honorable Frank Esposito, as every year, greeted the gathering and recalled his personal involvement with the Hungarian community. The celebration ended with the Hungarian National Anthem. by Rev. Lázslo M. Medyesy
