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"Mr President, tomorrow Hungary celebrates the anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and fight for freedom. The past few years, and the debates that have taken place on the nature of Hitlerism and Stalinism and the damage they caused, including debates in this House, have demonstrated that Europe’s more fortunate western half experienced history very differently from the ten newly acceded central European Member States.
Likewise, 9 May has a different meaning for us. For us it was not just the date of liberation, but also the start of occupation. Three central European events, acts of opposition to the Soviet Union and Soviet-style Communist dictatorships – the Hungarian Revolution of ’56, the Prague Spring of ’68, and the Polish Solidarity (Solidarność) movement – have nevertheless become part of our common European history. The uniqueness of 1956 lies in the fact that no other uprising involved a people taking up arms against the world’s largest army, the Soviet army, and no other case involved a country declaring its neutrality.
All the goals for which the heroes of 1956 were fighting – democracy, the rule of law, and liberty – were realised with the regime change. If we Hungarians can be proud of anything in the 20th century, we should be proud of the 1956 Revolution and the role we played in Germany’s reunification. Thank you for your attention."@en1
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