How ironic is it on the 50th anniversarry of the famous riots against the overthrow of your government, you Hungarians decide to celebrate by...overthrowing your government. If I didn't know better, and I don't, I would say that this whole thing, going back months, is nothing but an elaborate commemoration event. Nothing like chucking some Molotovs at armoured vehicles to bring back the memories.
...actually, now that I think about it, it might the Ruskies paying you back after half a century for the party you threw for them. Putin was KGB after all, and they're like elephants: never forget.
Except the current goverment is the one most budy-budy with the Russians, so much so, that Putin views (or is willing to view) Gyurcsany as his envoy into the EU.
Moreover we've made hard steps toward restoring economic relations with the Russians to what has been before the system change in 1989-1990.
So it's not really likely....
...however I wish we could have handed the issue to them. They 'solved' it in 1956, they could solve it in 2006.
BTW.: 1956 is one of the most controversial issues in our recent history.
While it was anti-soviet, Imre Nagy the ex-PM the masses demanded back in power and who eventually turned against Moskva was a firm communist....and also an impotent politician striving for impossible dreams.
Also, during the revolution, common petty criminals - burglars, robbers, petty thiefs as well as serial killers and rapists were also set free. The enraged mass hanged drafted soviet soldiers who were more like lost boys in the city than vicious foreign invaders. (Most of them barely past their 18th birthday). Another vicious scene of linching took place at the so called 'siege' of the party quarters....the surrendering and unarmed party officials were torn assunder...
Thankfully the revolution also had its high moments. Before it, there was a reign of terror. Matyas Rákosi, the secretar of the Hungarian Communist Party, had the country in an iron fist. The revolution at least resulted in his removal and exile.
However the price was heavy: several thousands (though not the hundred thousands some idiots claim) were imprisoned for their part in the revolution.
Imre Nagy and several members of his cabinet were executed...all given the green light by his replacement Janos Kadar, the greatest realist politician of Hungary......and a man who despite all his achievements of keeping the soviet favour while managing to lessen the pressure to comfortable levels in the country, at the end of his life has gone mad with guilt over all the things he had to sacrifice for this goal. First among them, giving Imre Nagy and his colleges over to the soviets to be trialed and certainly executed.
