The 53rd anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution was commemorated in the European Parliament on Tuesday.
The ceremony held during the parliamentary session’s break was initiated by the group of Hungarian MEPs of the European Peoples’ Party and an ethnic Hungarian MEP of Romania.
Ethnic Hungarian MEP Csaba Sogor, of the RMDSZ party, said in his address that a revolution is being commemorated in seven EU countries, which had been the first step in bringing down the Soviet regime.
Hungary’s ruling Socialist Party was represented only by one MEP, Edit Herczog, at the event. The group’s head said that they had decided to send one representative to show respect for the institution of the national commemoration, but the rest of the group had stayed away because they did not want to join an event attended by representatives of the radical nationalist Jobbik party.
“The Socialists MEPs do not wish to attend a commemoration together with the anti-Semite, anti-Roma Jobbik party,” head of the group, Csaba Tabajdi told MTI.
The Socialist MEPs will hold a separate commemoration in the Council of Europe headquarters on Wednesday.
Or put it another way, the dirty ex-commies don’t
want to be associated with an uprising against their
forebears.
Ya, they didn’t want to get shot or pulled apart by trucks, I will never forget the stories my uncle told me in Budapest 1956, when the AVO bastard butchers were shot like pigs in the streets…