The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1981 (4. évfolyam, 3-6. szám)

1981-09-01 / 5. szám

BI-MONTHLY B 20435 V THE GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY (NEMZETŐR) vo1- 5xxv SEPTEMBER—OCTOBER, 1981 "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" Article 18 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 25th Anniversary of Hungarian Uprising The First ’’Afghanistan“ A n invading Soviet army’s suppression of the Hungarian uprising in October- November, 1956, was the first „Afghanistan.“ It was the first time since the Second World War that a Big Power had used its mili­tary might - in defiance of world opinion - to reimpose in a „fraternal“ country the sort of government it thought that State ought to have. Twelve years later, in August, 1968, an­other „fraternal“ country, Czechoslovakia, whose ruling Communist Party had merely moderated the harshest elements of So­viet-style rule, was again made totally sub­servient to Moscow- This time the „nor­malisation“ (a Soviet jargon word) was achieved by invading army led and mainly composed of Russian troops but also includ­ing units from four other countries of the Warsaw Pact. Shortly afterwards, the Soviet Communist Party leader. Leonid Brezhnev, defined his so-called „Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty“, wich he and his comrades in the Kremlin regard as a justification for Hungary-type and Czechoslovakia-type military interven­tions in any „allied“ country anywhere in the world. Brezhnev’s „doctrine“ (first called that of „limited soverereignty“ by the non-aligned Yugoslavs) is at present being implemented with 1956-style brutality by the Soviet in­vaders of Afghanistan. Never before has the „doctrine“, which violates basic theory on national sovereignty and self-determi­nation, been applied in the Third World, in a nominally non-aligned country. However, the supremely brave resistance being put up by the meagrely-equipped Afghan Muslim guerrillas is bogging down 100.C00 Soviet troops, many of them becoming increasingly disillusioned. (See article „The Anguish of a Soldier’s Mother.“) The 25th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising is now being marked by the world’s estimated 15 million ethnic Hungarians, only about two-thirds of whom live in Hungary. As a result of the redrawing of the map of Central Europe and the Balkans after the First World War and of the flow of refugees from Hungary in 1956, there are large communities of Hungarians in Ro­mania and other East European countries and in the United States as well as 250,000 in Western Europe, 185,000 in Africa and Asia, and 35,000 in Australia. Moscow-style communist governments, kept in power by Soviet military occupation forces, had been established in Eastern Eu­rope only a few years when, on October 23, 1956, the Hungarian people rebelled against the Russian-imposed dictatorship. The first popular demands were for free elections and for other fundamental freedoms. SPONTANEOUS REVOLT The uprising was spontaneous. The AVH, the Soviet-controlled Hungarian secret po­lice. opened fire on a big unarmed crowd of workers and students who were demon­strating peacefully outside the Radio Building in Budapest, the Hungarian capital. The AVH shot dead at least 12 people. A report published in June, 1957, by the United Nations’ Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary said that shortly after 9 p.m. on October 23 teargas bombs were thrown from the upper windows of the (Continued on page 2) Hungarian demonstrators with captured Soviet tank in front of the Parliament, 1956 CONTENTS* 25th Anniversary of Hungarian Uprising 1-3 The Anguish of a Soldier’s Mother 4 Radio Worth more than 1000 Guns 5 Hungary’s Fight for Freedom 6-7 „Verdict" on Biological Warfare Expected soon 8 The Law and Sverdlovsk 9 Worker Sentenced yet again 10 Free Trade Unions as Seen from the Gulag 11 Secret Bishops Appeal for Freedom 12

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