Hungarian Revolution
“CLEVELAND–The Hungarian Revolution took place five long decades ago, but it lives brightly in the hearts of the 80,000 Hungarian-Americans who call Cleveland home. Many of them gathered here this past weekend to honor more than 50 members of their community who participated in the October 1956 uprising against Soviet tyranny or who witnessed it firsthand.”
This article is a really good reminder of how long it may take for Democracy to truly to take hold once a country has been overun with collectivists.
“Many attendees at the Cleveland event are still bitter that the Western powers did not intervene. They deeply regret the revolution’s failure. Still, they are proud of the resistance that Hungary offered. “We showed Soviet imperialism could be challenged,” said Edith Juhasz, who recalled crawling through fields as a child to reach the Austrian border. “It was a delayed success,” Rep. Tom Lantos (D., Calif.) told the gathering, “the spark for a later revolution that meant Eastern Europe has now found its home on the right side of history.”
While it may take several more generations for Democracy to take hold in the various tyranical countries that are currently in place in our world, Hungary is a great example that Freedoms fight is never in vain.
Jenny Hatch