Fáklyaláng, 1964. június-október (5. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1964-10-23 / 10. szám
2 FÁKLYALÁNG sense of values was born during those unforgettable, beautiful but tragic days; values which replaced all and any other system of values. The Hungarian nation reached the paramount point in its history in October - November 1956. The spiritual greatness of this nation of a thousand years of history manifested once again to the astonishment of the whole world. During the fiercest battles these people demonstrated a sense of responsibility and of humanism which had no parallel in modern history. The outside world admired their heroic deeds, their heroism, their will and their selfsacrifices. The entire country was united in the most sublime ideas: freedom and national independence. Workers, students, peasants, intellectuals, young and old, men and women, laid down the foundations of the nation’s future in complete harmony. These foundations served to implement the principles of a true democratic system of government. The National Committees and the Workers’ Councils became the spokesmen of the whole population and were not the power organizations of cliques. The members of these councils and committees were selected for their honesty only irrespective of their party political or religious affiliations. Thus, the people of the best qualities and characteristics were made the depositors of power. Both the Revolution and the ensuing Freedom Fight reflected the noblest traditions of the Hungarian nation. In the new Hungarian synthesis a social system began to develop in which the individuals were not subordinated to each other but enjoyed equal rights and opportunities. Such a system would have enabled the people to establish a free and independent country in which social justice would have been based on Christian morality. Any and all forms of Communism were rejected by the people as an alien way of life and a system was beginning to take form which would have been the most suitable for and most characteristic of the “Hungarian synthesis.” The noblest and purest hopes of the Hungarian people were trampled into the dust by the invading red hordes on November 4, 1956. They have extinguished the light of freedom in Hungary before the eyes and even with the assistance of inaction of the governments and peoples of the Free World. Those who abandoned the Hungarian people in their struggle for life and death are already condemned by their contemporaries and the consequences of their inaction are felt all over the world. The people of Hungary destroyed the myth of the Iron Curtain’s impermeability in a matter of a few days. By failing to seize the opportunity to force the roll-back of the Iron Curtain the Free World made possible the subsequent extension of Communist power in Asia, Africa and even the establishment of a Communist foothold in the Western Hemisphere. The tragic struggle of the Hungarian nation came to an apparent end several years ago. The heroes of 1956 entered the annals of history. Some, and there were many of them are buried in unmarked graves. Their remains will become part of the rich Hungarian soil to nourish the tree of freedom which, sooner or later, must bear its fruit. Others, who could not find their places in an enslaved fatherland, became homeless wanderers. Like the biblical seed, they were dispersed all over the world. Who fell onto barren soil will inevitably perish. The backbone of the nation and the promise of the future, however, remained at home although enslaved. We, the homeless wanderers, raise our voices again and again on their behalf, on behalf and in the defense of the enslaved. At home the fate of the freedom fighters was prison or execution. The nation, crushed and decimated, still suffers from the -wounds and losses. The life-saving panacea is waited in vain by the Hungarian people at home because the people in the free world have forgotten long ago the fate of the suffering Hungarian people who so valiantly fought for universal freedom. Although only eight years have passed since the Revolution and Freedom Fight there is hardly any important Western statesman who would raise the question of responsibility before the Communist government in Hungary for the planned and fatal genocide of the (continued on page 11)
