Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said Hungary’s armed forces will always remember their fallen heroes.
The minister laid a wreath at the grave of the soldiers in Várgesztes, in northern Hungary, on Thursday, who fell in the surrounding Vértes mountains in the second world war. Most of the soldiers, who were part of the attempt to liberate Budapest, died when the Vértes front was broken through on March 16-17, Minister Szalay-Bobrovniczky said. The minister said his grandfather was also seriously injured in the fighting, and over the next decades could only go back to pay his respects to his fallen brothers in arms in secret.