Szittyakürt, 1980 (19. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1980-11-01 / 11-12. szám
Official publication of the Revolutionary Council of the HUNGÁRIA FREEDOM FIGHTER MOVEMENT In 1955, just one year before the GLORIOUS HUNGARIAN FREEDOMFIGHT of October 23, 1956. Dr. Egon Kunz published a book of Hungarian Poetry (Pannonia Pub. Co., Sydney) in which among many poets he paid tribute to a revolutionary Magyar poet, Alexander Petőfi of the 19th Century. He characterized the meteoric life of Petőfi (1823-1849) by the following words: “. . . A born revolutionist, unamenable to discipline, he led an adventurous life. The publication and defiant public reading of his “NATIONAL SONG” on the 15th of March, 1848 marked the outbreak of the WAR OF FREEDOM. His chief themes of love, country, freedom and the sword, his volcanic temperament which could not endure and his folk songs, made him the nation’s symbol, idol and hero. His death on the battlefield was a fitting end to a life of enthusiam and dedication.” (pg. 12.) This young revolutionary soldierpoet was one of the makers of a new phase of modern Magyar history— the renewed struggled for national freedom—and was an aid-de-camp to the son of Poland, General Joseph Bem. Petőfi called his Magyar brethren FORWARD to fight and die for freedom from foreign occupation and oppression! With this intention and title he wrote his poem: FORWARD Rattle, O drums! O trumpets blare! Sabres all flashing, and through the air Whistle the bullets, yet on we go. Brothers, clasp hands, and charge the foe. Forward! Death is before us, but ere we die Flinging our towering banner on high, For all the watching world to see That the word on our flag is Liberty. Forward! ’The air is black and the ground is red, A bullet has struck my comrade dead. Oh, fill up his place, though your eyes are dim, And swear to conquer or die with him. Forward! 'Shoulder to shoulder, lads, on we go, Our bullets are quick, if our feet are slow, And those behind in the throes of death Can cheer us still with their dying breath. Forward!' Yes, shoulder to shoulder, the Magyar lads went and fell bravely fighting against Austria and Russia in 1848-49. Three times in the 20th Century they went forward and that many times fell from the blows of the foreign forces from East and West. TRIANON, YALTA, and HELSINKI marked the three chapters of the NEW HISTORY of the Magyars! Alexander Nógrádi, a onetime Vice-Minister of National Defense of the Soviet Satellite Hungary after 1945 asked the question: “What kind of world should there be?”, in his book Üj Történet Kezdődött (Kossuth, 1966, pg. 5). Will there be FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, DEMOCRACY . . . ? He was confident in the shadow of the brutal Soviet Army. The NEW HISTORY that BEGAN in 1848 took a new turn for him. For him Russian Bolshevism promised heaven on earth for which he sold out his Motherland but for countless of thousands of other Magyars it meant starvation, displacement, torture, and death in Hungary or in the icy At Segesvár (where Petőn fell in battle, Fighting heroically for the independence of his country), in 1896—as our illustration shows— the great poet's statue was unveiled. The Rumanians, unable to tolerate the presence even of the bronze statue of the apostle of world liberty, have removed it. Siberian forced labor camps. Those who sought the truth and true national independence suffered most from the Rákosi-Gerő puppet regime. Eleven years after the Soviet occupation of Hungary the NEW HISTORY that BEGAN in 1848 the (Continued on Page 3) AFGHANISTAN, ANOTHER VICTIM OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY By Louis F. Molnár An editorial, “The Afghanistan threat,” appeared in the Cleveland Press on January 4, 1980. Their comments that the invasion of Afghanistan is “more frightening than Moscow’s crushing of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 would be understandable without the knowledge of past U.S. foreign policies, since neither one of these countries had any oil to offer and now the Soviets are looking down the throat of the Middle Eastern oil wells, which are essential for the survival of the Western economies. The article continues: “Those crimes as terrible they were, were committed within what was conceded to be the Soviet empire.” This is true, however let us remember that it was the U.S. Government who conceded Eastern Europe to the Soviet empire in Yalta (1945), approved it at the Paris Peace Conference (1947) and reaffirmed it in Helsinki (1965). Let us remember that during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution it was President Eisenhower, who sent his secret message to Khruschev through Tito of Yugoslavia, that the U.S. Government considered Hungary to be in the Soviet sphere of interest, while the official rhetoric and political campaign was anti Soviet. Than in 1976, State Department official Helmut Sonnenfeldt stated in London, that the U.S. wanted to see a more “Organic Union” between Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, which ment incorporation into the U.S.S.R. Later that year President Ford stated in his election campaign debate with President Carter that “there was no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.” And now comes Afghanistan. More rhetoric, condemnation, protests and all the political circus, which we exiled Hungarians have witnessed and participated in for 24 years. The editorial message sounds so appealing “Let no history record that when the Russians seized the Middle Easts oil and upset the balance of power, they did so with American wheat in their bellies,” except for one small discrepancy, this message as well as all anti- Soviet propaganda is demolished by the covert politics of the U.S. Government exposed by the front page article in the same Cleveland Press on January 31, 1975 under the Headlines: “PLAN TO CARVE UP MIDDLE EAST IS REPORTED IF WAR BREAKS OUT.” This article by Chapman Pincher, Press-London Express writer states: “Intelligence chiefs here are convinced that when President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Breznhev met in Vladivostok two months ago, they agreed that any further Arab- Israeli war could bring them into confrontation was against both their interest and would have to be stopped. The scenario built up by intelligence experts suggests that in the interest of world peace the United States would take over political control of Saudi Arabia, Libya, Kuwait and possibly some Persian Gulf states, thereby ensuring western oil supply. The Soviet Union's share would be firm political control over Iraq, Syria and Iran, which would be the richest Soviet prize.” These statements raise a whole series of questions, as well as eyebrows, but little hope for the Captive Nations of Eastern Europe or the Afghan Freedomfighters. Was there a Vladivostok agreement? If so, is it still in effect, if not who broke the gentlemans agreement? Was Afghanistan part of such an agreement? If there was no agreement, why does the emerging patterm of the Persian Gulf geopolitics follow the outline of the 1975 intelligence report published by the Cleveland Press? Have the American hostiges in Iran anything to do with the Vladivostok agreement? Will the Persian Gulf oil insure continued Soviet rule over the oil starved Nations of Eastern Europe? Will the West German and Japanese economy be at the mercy of U.S.-Soviet controlled oil supply Remember Hungary October 23, 1956 In his commemorative speach last October, the Right Reverend Tibor Dömötör, Bishop of the Independent Hungarian Protestant Churches of America and one of the leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, called upon all Hungarian-Americans to join together in a noble project to raise a monument in Cleveland, Ohio in the memory of the fallen heroes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. In 1981 Hungarians around the world will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the glorious uprising against the Soviet Empire. A monument for this occasion will not only be a proper remembrance for Hungarians but also a reminder for the United States of Hungary’s war of independence against Soviet imperialism, which received a fatal blow by the covert policies of the Einsenhower administration. The world must remember that there will be no peace until nations must live under foreign occupation as a result of the Versailles, the Yaltas, the Helsinkies and other ill conceived treaties. WIR WOLLEN WIEDER UNSERE FREIHEIT WE WANT OUR FREEDOM AGAIN NOUS VOULONS DE NOUVEAU NOTRE LIBERTE ADJÁK VISSZA A SZABADSAGUNK A NEW HISTORY BEGAN
