Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1962-02-01 / 2. szám

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life, wc wanted freedom. We, the young people, were particularly hampered because we were brought up amidst lies. We continually had to lie.” The student then continued: “We could not have a healthy idea because everything was choked up in us. We wanted freedom of thought . . .” The UN Special Committee,

hearing this statement, made the following observation : “It seemed to the Committee that this young student’s words expressed as concisely as any the ideal of which made possible a great uprising. The motives which brought together so many sections of the population were essentially simple.”

Long before the uprising Imre Nagy in a memorandum addressed to the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party warned the leaders that the crimes committed by the regime “drive the people to desperation.” In the memorandum, which he started to write in 1955, Nagy laid the following crimes at the door of his party’s leadership: “lying and slander”, “the use of raw power”, “reprisals against the broad masses of working people”, “exploitation of material dependency of party functionaries”, “deception of party members”, “baseless accusations and arrests”, “raising the AVH above society and making it the principal organ of power.”

After listing these grievances Nagy wrote: “The inhuman tactics of the party leadership have aroused doubts and uncertainties in practically all sectors of society. Anyone who goes through the country with open eyes and ears can see and hear how political hooliganism is driving people to despair and how the workers are falling prey to dissension.”

Nagy repeatedly emphasized that as a disciple of Marx and Lenin he would betray his principles by not raising protest against practices which discredit Communism. “The violent