More than a lifetime’s worth of development and freedom was taken away from Hungary by the traitors of 1956, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said in his message sent to the people of Makó on the occasion of the anniversary of the revolution.

In the letter published on the portal makohirado.hu on Monday, the Fidesz politician who also serves as Member of Parliament for the constituency wrote that the perpetrators are not unknown: János Kádár and his accomplices, the party state elite.

Citing József Antall’s thought, he argued that the core sin of the change of regime was that "we did not create a revolution”. The perpetrators, the traitors of 1956 were allowed not just to remain at liberty, but also in power, he said. He added: this in turn did not only upset the country’s sense of justice, but also impeded its development.

The bloodless revolution in 1989 was followed by yet another betrayal: political machinations against the national interests, endless attempts to make the country „the happiest barrack of multinational capital”, the Minister summed up his view.

In the 20th century and in the early 21st century, revolutions were always followed by counter-revolutions, progress by setbacks; this is how the country stagnated for forty years, and later “for eight years”. The Hungarians finally had enough of this in 2010. At the time, civic forces were given the authorisation to finally complete the sabotaged, embezzeled and abandoned change of regime, Mr Lázár wrote. Hungarian politics was subordinated to the representation and enforcement of national interests, he added.

The Minister pointed out: the mistakes and sins of more than forty years cannot be remedied just in eight years.

The damage caused by setbacks and changes of course can only be rectified, Hungary can only return to the course to which it was directed back by the heroes of 1956 in October and from which it was diverted by Soviet tanks together with their Hungarian collaborators in November if “we receive authorisation to continue”. If next year we can adapt the slogan “We’ll start again in March” to the future as follows: “We’ll continue next May”, “We’ll continue next spring”, the Minister wrote.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)