Remembering the victims of communism
“Violence is part of the foundation of communism,” said State Secretary Bence Rétvári on Sunday. Since the turn of the millennium, February 25th has been the day of remembrance for the victims of communism.
In 2000, the Hungarian Parliament declared the day on which the General Secretary of the Small Farmers’ Party, Béla Kovács, was imprisoned by the Soviet authorities and deported to the Soviet Union in 1947 because of his resistance to the communists, as a memorial day. His imprisonment was the first step towards the communist dictatorship under Mátyás Rákosi in Hungary.
The Soviet Republic was just a foretaste
The State Secretary of the Interior Ministry, Bence Rétvári, recalled at a memorial event on Sunday that the “veil of red mist” fell over Hungary for the first time in 1919. Within a few months, several hundred people fell victim to the Soviet Republic. After the Second World War, the second communist dictatorship had 700-800,000 people deported to the Gulag alone – around 300,000 did not survive the forced labor in Siberia.
The communists initiated 1 million (!) criminal cases, mostly against the workers and peasants in whose name they exercised power. After the 1956 revolution was suppressed, 1,200 people were executed and more than 200,000 Hungarians fled the country.
Wokism, gender madness, … communism
“Violence is part of the foundation of communism, it is not the result of incorrectly implemented principles,” said the State Secretary. As soon as violence appears in public life, it should be a warning signal. Rétvári recalled the Antifa thugs in Budapest in February 2023, whose extremist views do not shy away from using violence to create a social order that suits them.
Where the direct path to power is blocked for the communists, they try to do so via detours, with wokism or gender madness. “The masters of tolerance want to sensitize us, but are blind as soon as their own radicalized comrades-in-arms beat people to the point of hospitalization,” Rétvári concluded. That is precisely why it is so important to preserve the memory of the victims of communism, which must be burned into the DNA of Central Europeans.
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