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Topic: The Right loves Hungary 1956?
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blake 3:17
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posted 29 July 2006 04:02 AM
So how does our side respond to this?Bush: Hungary proof Liberty cannot be denied And in Pravda:
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1956 anti-communist uprising commemoration takes place in Poznan
Front page / World
06/28/2006 13:18 Source:
President Lech Kaczynski was joined by counterparts Horst Koehler of Germany, Laszlo Solyom of Hungary, and Vaclav Klaus of Czech Republic to remember clashes that broke out between workers and communist militia in June 1956 in the western Polish city. With a military band playing, Kaczynski gave a red-carpet welcome to his fellow presidents in the picturesque old town square. Later, they were to take part in a Mass and then wreath-laying ceremony at a monument to the victims of the uprising.
Pravda story.
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Ken Burch
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posted 29 July 2006 12:36 PM
It's a bit weird for a Republican president to invoke Hungary in '56, given that one of the reasons the revolt, with its ultimately tragic consequences occurred, was that the Eisenhower administration or someone within in implied to the Hungarian rebels that, if the Soviets intervened, the U.S. would defend them. When the Soviets did, in fact, intervene, the U.S., apart from a few rather mild denouncements, did nothing.This was probably due in part to the fact that Imre Nagy and the rest of the rebels did not, in fact, want to repudiate socialism but to build a genuinely democratic and socialist alternative to the Leninist model that the USSR had forced on them. Had the Soviet leadership displayed the slightest degree of sense, it would have allowed this, as an attractive, nonrepressive form of Communism in the Eastern Bloc would have done more to enhance Soviet security than any number of tanks and troops. Unfortunately, the Soviets were led by people who thought like Western conservatives on security issues.
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