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Forty years have passed since the Warsaw Pact troops crushed Czechoslovakia and overthrew the government that had set itself the task of making the Communist dictatorship democratic. Unfortunately, Socialist Hungary also assumed a shameful role in the operation, together with the other Soviet satellite states, thus serving the raw, imperialist despotism of Moscow. We ask the Slovak and Czech peoples to forgive us for this.
For us Hungarians this is especially painful, since twelve years before that, in 1956, Soviet troops similarly drowned the Hungarian revolution in blood. By crushing the Prague Spring, Moscow signalled that it could do whatever it wanted in its sphere of influence, which it had stolen from Europe at the end of the Second World War, and that there were no borders to the imperialist shamelessness and hypocrisy of Soviet Russia.
There is only one possible tool against this – the firm, resolute defence of citizens’ human rights and of the principles of democracy and national sovereignty, and action against aggression. This is needed so that democratic Europe still has a clear message today!"@en1
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