Communism “was an insane ideology”, says Orban at a commemoration

Budapest, November 21 (MTI) – No one today disputes that Communism, like National Socialism, was an insane ideology, Viktor Orban, the prime minister, said at a commemoration on Saturday.

At the event held to remember Hungarian political prisoners and forced laborers deported to the Soviet Union, Orban said that when the insane idea of National Socialism shook the world, and when a crippled western world recognised that its very existence was at stake, it stepped into an alliance with another crazy ideology, with international socialism, communism and its master. This is how the Soviet world broke into Europe, he said.

“With its own security in mind, the West handed over on a plate a significant portion of European freedom-loving peoples to the Soviet Union,” the prime minister said. “In the name of the entire nation, we commemorate the persecuted and we bow our heads to the deceased, express our respects and … take care of the survivors,” Orban added.

Many hundreds of thousands of Hungarians were transported to the Gulags; prisoners of war, civilians and political prisoners from the Carpathian Basin, he noted, adding that between the autumn of 1944 and 1948 only a fifth of them survived the ordeal.