Szivárvány, 1986 (7. évfolyam, 20. szám)

1986-10-01 / 20. szám

"All the News That's Fit to Print”

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W1wS.*^ïiSî. Hw?- NEW YOrIc. MONDAY, NOVEMBER S. 19S6. ’WISTjSr.’S’t

LATE CITY EDITION

Russians Crush Hungarian Rebels; U.N. Inquiry Voted; Eisenhower Note to Bulganin Urges Troop Withdrawal

WE ACCUSE

We «ecu«« the Soviet Government of murder. We accuse It of the foulest treachery and the basest deceit known to mah. We accuse it of having committed so monstrous a crime against the Hungarian people yesterday that its Infamy can never be forgiven or forgotten.

Lenin wrote in 1900: ‘The Ciarlst Goyemment not only keeps our people in slavery but sends it to suppress other peoples rising against their slavery (as was done in 1849 when Russian troops put down the revolution in Hungary).’* How apt these words sound today when we substitute "Soviet” for "Caariat," and 1938 for 1849.

Hatred and pity, mourning and admiration, these are our emotions today: hatred for the men and the system which did not hesitate to shed new rivers of Innocent Hungarian blood to reimpose slavery; pity for the Soviet soldier*, duped into thinking they were fighting •'Fascists’’ when they killed defenseless or nearly defenseless men, women and children: mourning and admiration for the heroic Hungarian people who feared not even death to strike for freedom.

Gone now are the last illusions. Moscow now stands self-exposed. The torrent of Soviet bullets yésterday did not kill only Hungary's freedom and Hungary’s martyr^ Those bullets killed first of all the picture of a reformed, penitent Russia seeking to repudiate Stalinism, and practice coexistence. Could Stalin have acted more barbarously than did his successors yesterday? Can we have any doubt now of what awaits us if we ever relax our vigilance and permit ourselves to become prey to Soviet might, et was Hungary yesterday?

The day of infamy ia ended. The foul deed is done. The moat heroic ere dead. But the cause of freedom lives and is stronger than ever, nurtured by the blood of those who fell martyred in freedoms cause. The Hungarian people will never forget. We shall not forget. And out of hatred and tears Is born the’resolvV to carry forward the struggle till freedom is triumphant.

From the Archives of Library of Congress.