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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-10-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commemoration of the 1956 Hungarian uprising2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061024.4.2-021"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-10-24-Speech-2-0222
lpv:speaker	lp:Luca Romagnoli2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-01-14)3 member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-10-11--2007-02-14)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-27--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Movimento Sociale Fiamma tricolore (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the 50th-anniversary celebrations of the anticommunist uprising draw our attention to the crisis experienced by Ferenc Gyurcsány's socialist government. The new Hungarian elite has reclaimed the 1956 revolution and the communist symbols in order to justify liberalism. This strategy aims to give legitimacy to the current government, given its affiliation with the communist intelligentsia, and to reassure a population that, socially, is beginning to seriously suffer under the effects of liberalism. Communism in fact amounts to an excuse on would-be social grounds to exploit the people, as demonstrated today by China. Hungary has its place in the European Union because, in its experience of resisting totalitarianism, it brings new political sensibilities and, as in 1956, a popular ability to generate hope. Today, the protests by the extreme right against Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, who has admitted having lied about the state of the economy in order to win the elections last April, have seen 100 000 people demonstrating in Budapest on the occasion of the 50th anniversary. Demonstrators clashed with police for hours in the streets, leading to arrests and injuries. Supporters of the leading right-wing opposition party are themselves claiming the role of the true heirs of 1956. In my opinion, it is not a case of rewriting the history that everyone knows, or that European socialists and communists fail to recognise. It is all too easy to appeal to the emotions, evoking the bodies of men, women and children who fell under the blows of the Soviet Union in the name of communism. The Italian communists, Hungary and the Communist Party leaders sided with the USSR against the Hungarian revolutionaries. Party Secretary Palmiro Togliatti and his successor Luigi Longo declared their solidarity with the re-establishment of internationalist justice many times, even years later. The current President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, appeared in the newspaper condemning the revolutionaries as thugs and disreputable troublemakers. Fifty years later, in his autobiography, he does not retract this statement, but merely explains what is known to everyone, that is that in those years the Italian Communist Party and all European socialism was inseparable from the fortunes of the socialist block, led by the USSR. We should not so much condemn the Soviet Union's imperial actions, but rather strongly condemn those who, at the time, enthusiastically chose to support the invasion, in the name of communist and socialist internationalism."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"L’Unità"1

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