The statement in the title was formulated by Bence Rétvári in connection with the fact that on this day in 1939 Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

The Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Human Resources said at the event organized in the House of Terror Museum: the two great dictatorships started the Second World War as allies of each other, and in the secret clause of the pact, they divided Central Europe and Poland between them.

The brown and red dictatorships "understood each other very well" and were united in that they attacked precisely what made Europe European: its Christian foundations, roots, and persecuted the church institutionally, he emphasized.

Bence Rétvári called it the interest of Poles, Hungarians and Central European nations to become independent sovereign nation-states. In every case, it caused the destruction of these countries if they tried to approach some imperial ideal, he noted.

He recalled: the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarian Dictatorships was established in 2011 as a joint Hungarian-Polish-Lithuanian initiative, when Hungary held the presidency of the European Union. "Until now, no one had thought of this," he insisted, also noting that the double standard against the two dictatorships is still evident today.

Speaking about the importance of the memorial day, he said: "it symbolizes for us that the victims of the communist and Nazi dictatorships both hurt all EU member states in the same way". At this point, the Christian Democrat politician said that followers of Nazi and communist ideals in history "always find each other from time to time".

Referring to the present, he also spoke about the fact that Katarina Barley, the vice-president of the European Parliament, posted a picture of Karl Marx, "as if she took communion with the fundamental ideas of Marxism and communism". He then quoted Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, who said that Marx was not responsible for the actions committed by those who claim to be his heirs.

Bence Rétvári stated: it can be seen on all continents of the world that it always leads to dictatorship if Marxism comes to power. In his view, this is because communism is fundamentally anti-democratic and anti-religious, anti-Christian and anti-Jewish, and anti-family.

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