Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-06-01 / 6. szám
8 FRATERNITY what is still worse, to suppress people and to impose on the helpless government its own puppets and stooges, is the most despicable form of colonialism. Yet, this is exactly what has been happening in Hungary.” Uba Swen, Prime Minister of Burma — in 1956 5. POPULAR DEMANDS The aims of the Hungarian uprising were clearly defined in the various resolutions and manifestos which appeared on the eve of the revolt and during the uprising. In the course of the revolt no less than 225 such resolutions were adopted by different groups. The Report of the UN Special Committee points out that the most important of them were issued by student and intellectual groups before the outbreak of the hostilities. The rest of the resolutions actually only echoed the original demands. The student resolution contained 16 points. The first demanded the immediate withdrawal of all Soviet troops in accordance with the provision of the Peace Treaty. The first of the seven-point proclamations issued by the Hungarian Writers’ Union reads as follows: “We want an independent national policy based on the principles of socialism. Our relations with all countries and with the USSR, and the People’s Democracies in the first place, should be regulated on the basis of the principle of equality. We want a review of international treaties and economic agreements in the spirit of equality of rights.” While essentially the two groups voiced the same demand to free Hungary from Soviet domination, the students left the question of Hungary’s future system open. The writers, on the other hand, emphasized that their demand for independence should not be construed as a wish to abandon the principles of socialism. The students’ first demand was followed by a call for elections of new leaders in the Hun-
