1987. május (53-73. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2

- 2 We attend the strange unveiling ceremony of a strange statue. As if the police wished to avoid publicity. -A-s if it wanted as few people to come here as possible, albeit everybody should be raade known who Raoul Wallenberg was, what he has done and where did he disappear to. Everybody, who does nőt want this country and this society to become once again the prey of fanatics killing in the name of bestiái ideas, the prize of tyrants maddened by fear. Silence ruled fór forty years. It was a speaking silence. Now they start to talk about him, just should the talk nőt be as mendacious as the silence has been. We can read insinuations in the newspa- pers that Wallenberg had connections with the American intelligence. They would like to arouse sympathy fór those, who kidnapped and imprisoned him. They talk about manipulation, those, who do nőt do anything, bút try to manipulate us. They were unable to believe Wallenberg, this young mán with a fair countenance, bút ex- pect us to believe the sinister-faced tyranny, whose conscience has since long been wretched in the practices of oppression pursued since decades. We come to know about the death of Wallenberg from sources of undisputable reliability, they teli us, and expect us to believe. We should believe, although even they admit now, that they've lost all credibility even in the eyes of their own people. We should believe, although they've perverted even the humán language to such an ex- tent that freedom means oppression and peace war. We should believe, that what has been done, was long ago, at the time of the cult of personality, which belongs to the pást. We are expected to believe this, although in dismal nooks of the empire the sound-proof machinery of oppression still crumbles and grinds the bodies of tens of thousands, the minds of hundreds of thousands even today.

Disgrace the memory of Wallenberg those, fór whom from all his exemplary life only his death bears importance - warns an article. This is true. Bút they, fór whom the circumstances of his death are of no importance, alsó prove to be unworthy of his memory, the sacrifice of his life.'The task of exploring the genuine story of Wallenberg's life cannot be pút off any longer' - emphasizes the same article.

That's right! - we shout, because we know, that this would reveal nőt only one's fate, bút alsó the way the man-grinding mill of oppression works.

Simon Wiesenthal, the relentless pursuer of Nazi war criminals called Wallenberg the heroic antithesis of mass-murderers. The Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrey Sakharov, an outstanding figure of the humán rights movement in the USSR, called him one of the individuals of the XX. century, to whom the whole of huma- nity is indebted.

We honour his example and his memory with this bunch of flowers.

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