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We have been commemorating the victims of communism since February 25, 2001. On that day in 1947, Béla Kovács was deported to the Soviet Union. However, its smallholder politician was only one of the victims of the dictatorship, and in the years that followed many shared his fate. Today, therefore, many actors in Hungarian political life commemorated the tragedy.
Balázs Fürjes, Secretary of State in the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for the development of Budapest and the agglomeration of the capital, recalled in a video the story of one of his ancestors, who was kidnapped in 1947 at the age of 50. His grandfather first organized an armed resistance against the Nazis and then fought against the communists in the colors of the Independent Smallholder Party.
One afternoon, he was walking home quietly when Soviet Communists jumped out of a black car, captured him, and deported him to Siberia without trial. He died in a Soviet labor camp.
He remembered.
He claimed that the family received a letter years after his grandfather was innocent.
Let us gracefully remember, family and strangers, those we have lost. To all the victims of this crazy idea
I ask.
The Mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karácsony, also shared his message for the commemoration day on Facebook. Although they normally disagree with the Secretary of State on the affairs of the capital, there is no difference between them in terms of commemoration:
Millions of people, including my great-grandfather, were killed by the murderous dictatorship. My grandparents were taken to forced labor from which my grandfather could no longer return
– wrote Gergely Karácsony.
The mayor also added that we can prevent the past from repeating itself if we regularly remember the victims and tragedies “become a pain for everyone.”
President János Áder lit a candle in the House of Terror with his wife, Anita Herczegh, in memory of the victims.
Miklós Kásler, Minister of Human Resources, announced that the prisoners of war and internees cards were available on the website of the Hungarian National Archives.
THE 682 THOUSAND DIGITALIZED CARTONS INCLUDED IN THE ONLINE DATABASE CREATED FOR THIS PURPOSE, CONTAINS DATA ON HUNGARIANS ENTERING THE USSR BETWEEN 1941 AND 1956
The minister highlighted: Starting in the 21st century, in today’s free and democratic conditions, it is difficult to imagine what “the black car came for the man at night” was like when someone could be interned for years or imprisoned for no reason when innocent people were tortured and murdered.
When Béla Kovács was deported to the Soviet Union, where hundreds of thousands of our compatriots were already in forced labor camps, Miklós Kásler said, adding that the vast majority of these people had returned to the Gulag innocently and hundreds had never returned.
Meanwhile, László Kövér, president of the National Assembly, drew attention to the fact that the role of school education will become increasingly important to nurture the role of victims, as the younger generation is only informed about what happened in the history books. The Speaker of the House commemorated him in a video together with the Rákóczi Association and the National Committee of Remembrance.
We are already a generation, not to mention our children and grandchildren, who were born and raised in peace, without social cataclysm, without war that threatened our lives.
he pointed. He added that, therefore, it is exponentially important to acquire the defenses, the “vaccine,” which will provide “some level of protection against any unwanted social event” in the future.
The LMP used Memorial Day to resubmit its proposal to make officers’ files public for the twenty-third time. László László Keresztes, the leader of the faction, said that the step is considered more symbolic, they do not expect the representatives of Fidesz and KDNP to vote for the proposal.
He also stressed that it is not possible to build democracy on the secrets of a dictatorship, therefore, since the change of regime, each government and each parliamentary majority has been responsible for not guaranteeing the transparency of the state security past.
Miklós Soltész, Secretary of State for Ecclesiastical and Ethnic Relations in the Prime Minister’s Office, asked people at an online conference not to allow “descendants of disappeared ideologies” to return to the suffering of hundreds of millions.
Memorial Day was started by Béla Horváth, Member of Parliament, with whom we also met today.
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