The life and legacy of independent Hungary’s first president is as tragically complex, as any historical novel of the past century. As the American writer E.L. Doctorow once said, “The devastating history of 20th century Europe is housed in the being of Árpád Göncz.”
[—] After the Soviet tanks crushed the uprising on November 1956, Göncz was dragged out of his apartment in the middle of the night and arrested for treason. For months he was interrogated, and was finally tried in the same show trials as István Bibó, the last remaining cabinet minister of the Revolution.
At the trials, “young people willingly and proudly explained their own role [in the revolution], because they truly believed that what they did was right. We never denied anything. The only thing you had to pay attention to is not to incriminate others,” Göncz once said. Everyone, including himself, expected the death penalty, but the judges sentenced the freedom fighters to life imprisonment. “The best minds of Hungary were in prison,” he remembered. more here
Memory hole. Now.
Salt of the earth are these!
The pussy O’Bama and Hillary and Sanders and Biden and ….. well the list goes on and on doesn’t it?
Limp wrist losers.
Where are the Reagans? Churchhill’s? George Washington’s?
Somebody !!
Nope, it’s gonna be grassroots who’ve suffered tyrannical persecution. Always has.
Kill my 1st statement on top please.
Those old Eastern European freedom fighters damn sure paid their dues! We could learn a lot from them.
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