Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-12-01 / 12. szám
14 FRATERNITY The seething unrest which exists beneath the surface in Hungary and in other East- Central European countries under Soviet domination, forces the Kremlin to maintain huge and costly military installations, and to provoke one international crisis after the other to justify them. The cost of these installations deprive the Soviet people of the just share of the fruits of their labor. Soviet colonialist policies hold them in bondage, too. Soviet leaders, by crushing the Hungarian revolt with massive military forces and by holding on to Hungary as part of their colonial empire, exposed their imperialist designs. But they also exposed the true nature of Communism. As Albert Camus, the Nobel prize winning French writer — once a Communist fellow traveler himself — said: “The Hungarian revolt blew to bits the biggest lie of the century: a lie that tried to pass off a regime of police tyranny as a proletarian revolution.” POSTSCRIPT A spontaneous, unexpected uprising of a small nation against the overwhelming forces of her oppressors, the heroism of plain, unassuming people, who emerged from the fields and workbenches into the limelight of history, contains all the elements of a magnificent human drama. It resurrects the world of legends, which will always fire the imagination of young and old. The writer of this analysis regrets that the scope of his study has not permitted him to discuss at length any phase of the Hungarian uprising and its aftermath. But there are a great many penetrating studies, detailed accounts available to the reader, among them works by Prof. Ferenc Vali of the University of Massachusetts, Prof. Paul E. Zinner of the University of California, Prof. Hugh Seaton
