Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-12-01 / 12. szám
16 FRATERNITY 1962. The Central Committee announced with great fanfare the expulsion of Mátyás Rákosi, the former Stalinist leader who fled Hungary in 1956 and was never previously known to have been a member of the Party formed by János Kádár. The sensitivity of Communist leaders even to a passing reference to the Hungarian uprising and the Soviet Union’s massive military intervention and their repeated efforts to have the United Nations drop the Hungarian question from the agenda of the General Assembly clearly demonstrate that the moral indignation which swept across continents after Soviet forces crushed the Hungarian revolt has remained a dreaded reminder in the Kremlin that with force, intimidation and treachery temporary victories may be scored, but ultimate triumph cannot be achieved. A telegram addressed to the leaders of the Kremlin after Soviet forces crushed the Hungarian revolt showed that they can not even rely on the indulgence of men and women, who never before had harbored unfriendly feelings toward the Soviet Union. Signed by such well known French intellectuals as Jean Paul Sartre, Simon de Beavoir, Claude Morgan, Roger Valiant and Claude Roy, the telegram said: “We consider and always will consider that Socialism, like freedom, cannot be carried on the point of a bayonet . . . The first and principal demand which we address to the Soviet Government is the demand for truth. Where truth triumphs, crimes become impossible; where truth is suppressed, there can be neither justice, nor peace, nor freedom.” September 1962. (The End)
