The Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism is not only an opportunity to bow our heads in front of our predecessors who suffered a lot, but also to express our will: we will not let our children and grandchildren become victims of new poisonous ideas and new dictatorships, the President of the Parliament stated on Saturday on the occasion of the Memorial Day held at a commemoration in Budapest.
In his speech at the Béla Kovács statue, László Kövér said that in the 20th century the Hungarian state was taken hostage by communism twice. First in 1919 for 133 days, second time in 1947, for more than forty years.
On both occasions, the accomplices of communism in Hungary were foreign-funded agent networks that attacked with mental and physical violence and served foreign interests, he added.
According to László Kövér, the shocking anti-Christianity that is gnawing in the Western world today, the proliferation of ideologies alien to reality that deny basic biological, economic and cultural facts, the increasingly open opposition to private property or even the appearance of political terror groups are nothing more than an attempt to return to communist ideas and practice.
He put it this way: the communist idea is not merely returning to the West, but is actually returning home.
"We Hungarians have known for sure since then: wherever the communist fluke rears its head, violence, suffering, oppression and looting always come in its wake," he said, adding that in the three decades that have passed since the fall of communism, the Western political elite has part of it constantly relativizes the crimes of communism.
The President of the Parliament noted: in the Western world, there is continuous propaganda denying the reality of the biological specificity of men and women, the most important goal of which is to destroy the concept and institution of the family based on the union of love between a man and a woman. The denial of the economic reality of private property and value-creating work is also getting louder, and the attempt to destroy the Christian cultural value system is also taking place more and more openly and aggressively, he said.
László Kövér assessed that common sense, the common good and the public interest are under constant siege in the countries of the Western world.
The speaker emphasized: the sacrifice of our predecessors and the hope of our successors, among other things, require us to protect the democratic legitimacy and political capacity of our state, which is at the service of the public good, public power and our national interests, under all circumstances.
He also called it desirable that no one should ever be able to abolish Hungarian parliamentary democracy, and that Hungary should contribute to the creation of a new balance of power between states and global private powers in the Western world according to its possibilities and strength.
László Kövér also touched on the fact that Friday was the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
He noted:
the war will not have a military or political winner, but there are already financial winners, the creditor interest groups outside Europe, declared the President of the Parliament.
Béla Turi-Kovács, the president of the Small Farmer Civic Association, recalled in his greeting: when Béla Kovács, the former general secretary of the Independent Small Farmer Party and a prominent member of the Hungarian Parliament, was taken away in 1947, it became obvious that our sovereignty had ceased.
Réka Földváryné Kiss, the president of the National Remembrance Committee, explained that the abduction of Béla Kovács was an unprecedented violation of the law, as well as the destruction of the democratic national elite fighting for the country's independence, in other words, the most important step in the elimination of the non-communist national independence governmental alternative.
If there is no memory, storytelling, then there is no identity, he declared, pointing out that the communist dictatorship wanted to take not only lives, but also the possibility of common remembrance.
According to Réka Földváryné Kiss, it is important to retell the stories that have been silenced for decades, doomed to be forgotten, because "being able to remember together is the basis of our common national identity".
At the end of the commemoration organized by the Office of the Parliament, the Rákóczi Association and the Kisgazda Civic Association, László Kövér, Béla Turi-Kovács, Réka Földváryné Kiss, as well as Csáky Csongor, president of the Rákóczi Association and Géza László Sömjéni, president of the Freedom Fighters Public Foundation, laid a wreath at the memorial. .
Five hundred students also placed commemorative flowers at the statue, representing the secondary school organizations of the Rákóczi Association in the Carpathian Basin.
Source and full article: vasarnap.hu
Featured image: Tamás Kovács / Source: MTI
