The Civil Unity Forum is launching its traveling exhibition titled Freedom drowned in blood on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the leak of the Őszöd speech, to remember together this dark and bloody period of the recent past.
On September 17, 2006, a series of demonstrations on a scale not seen since the regime change began after Ferenc Gyurcsány's speech at the closed faction meeting of the MSZP in Balatonőszöd was leaked: the Őszöd speech. The police responded to the series of demonstrations that broke out that day in a manner reminiscent of dictatorships: more than 200 civilians were seriously injured as a result of the intimidating actions.
For the first time, on Erzsébet tér in Budapest's 5th district, on Saturday, September 18 and today, Sunday, September 19, visitors can view the exhibition compiled on the basis of contemporary documents and recordings, which commemorates the dark and of his bloody period.
The exhibition was opened by Norbert Heizler, , Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted that he had betrayed his country. He also reminded us that after our freedom struggle in 1956, blood flowed again on the streets of Pest , as the police attacked the peaceful demonstrators on state orders. "The viper hissed, the horse charge started, thousands of rubber bullets hit the innocent crowd. On October 23, 2006, Ferenc Gyurcsány drowned freedom in blood. He hung a blood-red republic around the necks of the Hungarians." - remembered Norbert Heizler, who concluded his speech by saying that we do not forget the past, but want to learn and teach from it.
Dr. Tamás Gaudi-Nagy , executive director of the National Legal Protection Service, himself took an active role in the fight for compensation for the victims of state terror. The exhibition, initiated and carried out with the professional assistance of the National Legal Protection Service, presents visitors with the horrors of state terror in the fall of 2006 with the power of irrefutable facts and evidence. In his speech, he emphasized that "now irrefutable photographs and film recordings, thousands of eyewitnesses, dozens of final judgments and investigation reports prove how the "rule of law " of Ferenc Gyurcsány attacked the Hungarian people with brute force in the fall of 2006 in order to keep the left-liberal government in power. Violating the fundamental political freedoms of thousands of people, injuring more than half a thousand demonstrators, commemorators and passers-by – of which at least two hundred were serious – (e.g. eye injuries causing loss of vision, broken bones) and arbitrarily imprisoning hundreds.” The executive director of the National Legal Protection Service also explained why the exhibition was created:
"The fallen left-liberal political forces, for whose benefit and control the terror took place, are preparing to come to power next year with their new allies. They promise to return to the pre-2010 "rule of law", i.e. continue where they left off. That's why it's important to introduce the story of this cataclysm to as many of our compatriots as possible, especially young people."
The list of speakers included jr. Dr. Zoltán Lomnici , the spokesperson of CÖF-CÖKA, closed it, emphasizing that the Hungarian nation reacted with elementary indignation to the leaked speech. All this was more than a mere moral crisis, the government at that time was in a constitutional crisis. At the end of his speech, he reminded that the Ószöd speech still has an afterlife in terms of public policy and public law.
The exhibition can be viewed at the Budapest location, Erzsébet tér in the 5th district, today, Sunday, from 12:00 to 20:00, and then from Monday it will go on a nationwide tour, the public will be continuously informed about the further stops on the website and Facebook page of the Civil Solidarity Forum, as well as on the 2022plus portal and on his Facebook page.
