On February 24, the House of Terror Museum celebrates its twentieth anniversary. On this occasion, a press conference was held, where, in addition to looking back and presenting the programs, the words of Péter Márki-Zay, the candidate for prime minister of the left, were discussed, according to which they represent both the communists and the fascists. Mária Schmidt, the director general of the institute, believes that ideally this would be the end of a political career, while State Secretary Zoltán Kovács emphasized that Márki-Zay's words prove the museum's right to exist.

"It is symbolic that on June 16, 2000, the then government decided to commemorate the victims of communism," said Zoltán Kovács. The Secretary of State responsible for international communication and relations recalled: at that time, the left tried to prevent the Memorial Day and the opening of the House of Terror.

- Yesterday, the leftist candidate for prime minister uttered words that on the one hand prove the museum's right to exist, and on the other hand warn of the danger that is becoming more and more pronounced not only in Hungary, but in the whole of Europe, but also in the United States, and that is totalitarian dictatorships, especially the relativization of the sins of communism. With this, Zoltán Kovács indicated that Péter Márki-Zay spoke about the fact that they represent both communists and fascists. As the Secretary of State noted, there is still a lot to be done because the House of Terror is meant to prevent the re-emergence of totalitarian dictatorships.

"In the months before the opening, fierce attacks were made against the museum," emphasized Mária Schmidt, the director general of the institute. He also highlighted that the left-wing elite thought for twenty years that only they could interpret the past and could not accept that they were experiencing something they were not used to.

- The dictatorship that we are presenting was not a historical, random accident, which was the result of the derailment of a well-intentioned ideology - underlined Mária Schmidt, who is proud that the museum can show a lot of young people that the Nazi and communist dictatorships springing from a stem.

Patrik Máté's report on the press conference in Magyar Nemzet .

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