Fraternity-Testvériség, 1956 (34. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1956-11-01 / 11. szám
FRATERNITY 3 AGAIN, HUNGARIAN BLOOD SHAPES HISTORY A few weeks ago, the uprising in Hungary claimed the attention of the world. First, it was commented here as a natural eradiation of the Polish internal struggle between the Stalinist and Titoist factions of the communist system. Russians, on the other hand, blamed the troubles on the “fascist reactionary elements”, who are making their last and hopeless effort to overthrow the people’s government. Neither version turned out to be right in the light of subsequent reports. The world witnessed a miracle: people of Hungary — intellectuals, workers and soldiers — small in number, but grown giant in the love for freedom, attempted to shake off all vestiges of communism. Students, indoctrinated during the last eleven years in communist idealogy, stampeded the heavily armed henchmen of the secret police as they fired at the mass demonstration against Soviet domination. May the desperate action of those heroic youngsters convince the subversive high-brows of the Western spiritual life; regardless of how splendid the Red bluff may seem to them while reading about it in uncensored books here, in our comfortable “capitalistic hell”, so unbearbale might it become if an intellectual is imprisoned in its confines that even life would not be too dear to sacrifice for the freedom of spirit. The Hungarian working class, the ground-work of the new socialist society, joined the youth as one man, throwing away their tools and taking up arms to fight their slave-drivers. The large industrial centers — Budapest, Csepel, Miskolc, Győr, Magyaróvár, Dunapentele and Pécs — became strongholds of the resistance in most of which they would rather perish than return to the “Soviet worker’s paradise”. Their gallant self- sacrifice was not in vain. The ruthless exploitation and merciless massacre of their Hungarian comrades opened the eyes of Western workers about communism, and many non-Russian communists are now destroying their membership cards all over the world. Even the communist-infiltrated Far-Eastern leaders gave expression to their disgust condemning Soviet hypocrisy and brutality. “Victory” in Hungary brought serious losses to the new smiling Russian propaganda. The conduct of the new people’s army gave, perhaps, the biggest surprise to the Moscowites. For the last decade, every officer of the Hungarian army was hand-picked from among the children of the lower working classes, possibly from parents who suffered under the old regime. They were carefully trained
