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Hungary marks anniversary of November 4, 1956, when anti-Soviet uprising was crushed
Hungary's parliament declared November 4 a national day of mourning in 2013.
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PM Orbán: Brussels bureaucrats have led West into a 'hopeless war'
The world is closer to a world war than ever in the past 70 years, PM Orbán said. "Everyone pretends not to see that the emperor has no clothes."
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FM: Respect to the heroes of the freedom fight
The foreign minister said that no matter where Hungarians went in the world, they were received with "love and concern".
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PM Orbán: We shall not allow Hungary to be turned into a puppet state, a vassal of Brussels
"To be Hungarian means to fight; this is the message and the demand of the heroes of fifty-six," said the prime minister.
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PM Orbán: Brussels wants to install a puppet government over us
On the 68th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán honored the heroes of 1956 while drawing sharp parallels between Hungary's past struggles against Soviet oppression and current pressures from the European Union.
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Speech by Viktor Orbán on the 68th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight
23 October 2024, Budapest
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Defense Minister: Hungarians have been a people of freedom since 1956
The defense minister said the heroes of 1956 had fought for national sovereignty, and Hungarians today were vigilant about any foreign intervention that violated "our national sovereignty".
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Concert held in honor of 1956 martyr
The concert was held in Veszprem to mark the hundredth anniversary of Árpád Brusznyai’s birth.
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PM Orbán calls 1956 revolution and freedom fight a “spark of Hungarian genius”
The prime minister said 1956 had been the last chance for a European Hungary “to tear itself away from the world of Bolshevik socialism” which had banished “European culture, Christian civilisation and the right of nations to exist”.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s commemoration speech on the 67th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight
24 October 2023, Veszprém
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Hungarians up and down the country mark anniversary of anti-Soviet revolt
Hungary marks the anniversary of the anti-Soviet revolt which started on October 23, 1956.
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House Speaker opens photo exhibition about anti-Soviet uprising of 1956
László Kövér said 1956 was the tragedy of a country wanting to break out of communism but being let down by the key players of world politics.
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Gulyás: Cooperation with German government “is of prime importance”
As well as talks with Wolfgang Schmidt, Gergely Gulyás attended a commemoration of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolt, held at the Hungarian embassy in Berlin.