Magyar News, 2005. szeptember-december (16. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

2005-10-01 / 2. szám

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In your position you have enough people around you. buddies, relatives, business partners, or just clerks in your respectful office, to whom you may turn for help. Send somebody to the library and have them pick up books, there are many, about October 23, 1956. If you want to make them happy then send them to a library in Vienna, Paris, or London, and probably don’t leave out Moscow. These all have proper information on the real 1956. But if you want to save money, we know that you are good doing that for yourself, then invite Pista bácsi, or Jancsi bácsi, even Mári néni, and ask them about their life in 1956. I am sure that they could tell you enough, so you could prevent doing and saying stupid things. Stupid things do not go well with your office. I don’t know why you need that office of PM anyhow. It must be a burden; You don’t need your salary of HUF 700,000 because you pocket over 100

MILLION HUF a year. They boo, whistle, and yell at you when you stand up in front of people. Historians in the future will question you like “who the hell was this?” In some aspect you hit the problem right on the head. You said that there were differences in the way people experienced 1956. On this page Í have a picture showing the comer of Üllői út and the Nagy Körút. In the back of the building is the famous Corvin köz that played a role in putting the monkey-wrench into the coldwar. But as you look at the photo you really come to the conclusion that there were at least two ways to see 1956. The Hungarian people living in the building that was shot apart by a foreign force had a different view then those of the foreign force who were in the Soviet tank. We could show you more photos, but in the 16 years we did that already. Send somebody to the library, we would appreciate your

trouble. The other two pictures we show are painted by Americo Makk, a Hungarian living in Italy. The top shows the Soviet idea, the bottom the Hungarian reality. I figured that you want to minimize the Uprising. Why don’t you pack up and go to president Putin who managed some people in Russia to want the Stalin regime back. Putin said that the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century was the disappearance of the Soviet Union. He wants to silence everything about the horrors of the Soviet forces, or the massacres in Katyn and Lemberg, the rape of a million women, and on-and-on.

Mr. PM you are referring to the new generation, that it is not that much about the past, it is also about the future. The day will come when the new generation will wake up and see through the fog. My faith in the Hungarian people will not diminish.

Joseph F. Balogh

These two paintings by Americo Makk, each 6 'x8 ’ show the artist s view on two basic parts of the Uprising. Top is the Soviet imagination, bottom the Hungarian reality