Thirty years ago, on June 19, 1991, the last occupying Soviet soldier left the territory of Hungary, although his army had already left on the 16th, as we wrote about here!
Lieutenant General Viktor Silov, the commander of Army Group South, locked the door of the barracks, put the key in his pocket and grumpily raced back to the old world on his service Volga, which, however, collapsed almost half a year later and buried Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, the initiator of the changes, under it.
The withdrawal of the team was followed by a protracted property rights and financial dispute, because the intergovernmental agreement of 1957 did not clarify several issues. The negotiations surrounding the transfer and return of the military objects left behind, their deteriorated condition, and the environmental damage caused ended with a "zero solution" and the parties mutually renounced their claims against each other. The agreement was signed in Budapest on November 11, 1992 by Prime Minister József Antall and Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
The departure date, June 19, 1991, became a notable date in Hungarian history: the first foreign soldier not stationed on Hungarian soil since the German occupation of March 19, 1944. In commemoration of this, on May 8, 2001, the Parliament adopted Resolution XVII of 2001 "on the importance of regaining the country's freedom and the day of Hungarian freedom". by law, June 19 was declared a national day of remembrance, and the last Saturday of the month of June was declared the day of Hungarian freedom.
The revolution of 1956 showed that this force was not only stationed, but if necessary it smothered national hopes in blood! And he imprisoned the country for a long time. We search in vain for our lost hours, days, and years!
Bye bye, Sza!
Source and further details: pestisracok.hu
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