Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1962-01-01 / 1. szám

FRATERNITY

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PAUL NADANYI:

THE REVOLT THAT ROCKED THE KREMLIN

“So long as men live in any country who remember the murder of Hungary, Soviet Russia will never be able to pose before the world as the benefactor of mankind. The Hungarian dead have torn that mask off. Their fingers hold its tatters in their graves.”

Archibald MacLeish

I.

THE ERUPTION OF THE REVOLT

On October 23, 1956, a violent revolt erupted in Budapest, Hungary. The total disintegration of the powerful Hungarian Communist Party, the collapse of the Moscow supported regime in the course of a few days, and the nation’s bid for independence and neutrality rocked the Kremlin’s whole satellite empire in East-Central Europe.

The uprising was both a revolution against a despotic domestic system and a revolt against foreign domination. As the revolution triumphed, the Kremlin feigned acceptance of Hungary’s demands for freedom and independence. But while jubilant Hungarians prepared to create a system of their own choice, the Soviet Union regrouped its forces and then by overwhelming military might and treachery destroyed Hungary’s new-born freedom.

For overy forty years Communism has claimed to be the liberator of down-t"odden peoples. Communist propagandists have promised the fulfillment of mankind’s age-old aspirations for abundance and social justice, for self-determination and peace.