The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in the United States has a vital role in keeping the events of many decades ago in the minds of younger generations.
Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the opening ceremony of the Mindszentyneum
The national flag of Hungary was hoisted with military honors in front of Parliament on Sunday morning.
In his address marking the 66th anniversary of Hungary's 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, the prime minister said "we're able to protect Hungary's interests both at home and abroad".
Drawing on the events of Hungary’s 1,000-year history, Prime Minister Orbán said that “whoever wants to sit on our shoulders is doomed to fail. We were here when the first conquering empire attacked us, and we will be here when the last one collapses.”
”On the 66th anniversary of our national holiday this year, we can say for the first time that we have been free to remember '56 for as long as the communist dictatorship tried to erase, paint over and silence the memory of the revolution.”
Hungary's flag was hoisted and lowered to half-mast in front of Parliament on Thursday morning, in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the defeat of the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule.
“We Hungarians wanted to belong to the free world, but that world left us high and dry,” Péter Szijjártó said on Facebook on Saturday.
“Lights of commemoration will certainly be lit at the Etoile in Paris, in North and South America, in Europe, as well as in Australia where Hungarian communities come together to celebrate and remember,” Gulyás said.
Hungary’s anti-Soviet uprising of 1956 was a European cause and a “fatal wound to the West’s illusions about communism”.
Hungary’s national flag was hoisted and then lowered to half-mast with military honours in front of Parliament on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of November 4, 1956.
The national flag was hoisted with military honors in a ceremony in front of Parliament at 9 am this morning.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, only two state events will be held this year to commemorate Hungary’s 1956 uprising against Soviet rule.