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In these two years, we have accomplished
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many things that are not popular.
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Did we ever say in the
Hungarian Democratic Forum
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that popular tasks would follow?
Why, for the sake of the country,
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we are willing to sacrifice our
own political party. I hope
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that this will not be necessary,
but when we put it this way
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we have just said that we will not sacrifice
the country for party interests,
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if necessary, rather vice versa. Therefore,
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we have chosen the only possible path,
which means transformation.
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We've said it many times,
but it may not hurt
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to have a difficult inheritance.
We do not doubt that after
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the retortion period in Hungary after 1963,
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the conditions continued to improve
nd that there were reform
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experiments in 1968.
Consequently, the political
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and economic situation in Hungary
has improved more significantly
than in the neighbouring countries.
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But, please, to what do we owe this? To 1956.
Let's not be so grateful
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to the past system upholders
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so as to think
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they figured it out on their own.
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In 1956, when János Kádár was taken to
Moscow with Ferenc Munnich,
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Mátyás Rákosi was put there for him -
who did not say a word there in Moscow
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but when the demands were made
they always showed him Rákosi.
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Malenkov, Khrushchev and the others
knew how to handle it.
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And when that happened and when
Kádár took on this role
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it certainly wasn't an easy role
but he did have a routine.
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Then please, they've always had 1956 in mind.
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That's what they said in Moscow.
It was argued that they could not
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carry out those claims.
The Hungarian government had a separate sobbing man
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in the person of Antal Apró who said in Moscow
that we could not pay any more.
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He claimed that otherwise
it would be '56 all over again.
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And it went on this way and we assured ourselves
that military spending was smaller than elsewhere
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because the army and the police,
together with the Minister of Interior Boross,
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had never exceeded
the strength of the Soviet army present
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and that it was the revolution and freedom
struggle of 1956 that taught the Russians,
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taught the Soviet Union,
the Communists that Hungary
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should be treated differently.
