The Forgotten Faces Page #2

---

But they don't get far.

Called the AVO,

these are the men who've held down

the country with an iron grip of terror.

What are these men'?

Are they traitors and bullying

opportunists of the worst kind'?

Or are they unwitting dupes?

And if the freedom fighters

had actually won the revolution,

would any of them have donned similar

uniforms to hold these men in check'?

By the 30th of October,

the Soviet forces had withdrawn

to the outskirts of the capital.

And Imre Nagy, the premier,

had set up his provisional government.

The revolutionaries were

now in complete control of the city.

Four days, the people of Budapest

lived under the illusion of freedom,

until the morning of Sunday,

November 4th,

when Imre Nagy broadcast

the following message

to the Hungarian people.

"This is Imre Nagy speaking,

"chairman of the Council of Ministers

of the Hungarian People's Republic.

"In the early hours of this morning,

"Soviet troops launched an attack

against our capital city,

"with the obvious intention

of overthrowing

"the lawful democratic government."

"Our troops are fighting,

the government is in its place."

"I hereby inform the people of Hungary

and the entire world of this situation."

Searchlights pick out

the grim chaos in the rubble,

as on the evening

of the 4th of November,

Russian tanks pour into the city and

lining the squares and street junctions,

fire shell after shell into the

buildings held by the freedom fighters.

Office blocks, apartment buildings and

hospitals are fired on indiscriminately.

Parts of many buildings

collapse on their defenders,

and scores are buried alive.

The noise of gun firing is deafening

and everywhere is smoke,

brick dust and rubble.

Time and time again,

students and young children are

dragged out from beneath the rubble.

It is terrible to watch.

There is no time to bury the dead.

There is not even time

to grieve for them.

There has to be a right and wrong

in any human conflict.

This most tragic of revolutions

can be no exception.

But in any conflict

between two major creeds,

one of which you believe in,

there has to be a final taking of sides.

And if those who happened to believe,

as these Hungarian

freedom fighters believed,

had taken a strong moral stand

on their behalf,

at the time when it most mattered,

then it is more than likely

that 20,000 of these people,

need not have given their lives

or their liberty for this belief.

Tams Varasi, dead.

Margit Zeke, refugee.

Istvn Berek, executed.

Eva Rokos, executed.

Lszl:
Reva, dead.

Der Bn, killed.

And Dan Kelman, dead.

Mihly Kiss, executed.

Jnos Zigzai, deported.

Refugee.

Executed.

Deported.

Missing.

Killed.

This is Imre Nagy speaking,

chairman of the Council of Ministers

for the Hungarian People's Republic.

In the early hours of this morning,

Soviet troops launched an attack

against our capital city,

with the obvious intention

of overthrowing

the lawful democratic

Hungarian government.

Our troops are fighting,

the government is in its place.

I hereby inform the people of Hung...

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes