Hungary, Poland mark 60th anniversary of Poznan uprising

Budapest, June 28 (MTI) – Zsolt Németh, the head of the Hungarian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, praised the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in Poznan after opening an exhibition entitled “Poland-Hungary. History and Remembrance” in the lower house of the Polish parliament on Tuesday.

The exhibition gives an unparalleled depiction of the Hungarian and Polish uprisings of 1956, Németh told MTI.

The revolution that erupted in Poznan 60 years ago today played a decisive role in the outbreak of the one in Budapest, he said, adding that “Budapest would not have been Budapest without Poznan.”

Németh said one of the messages of 1956 was the need to support Ukraine, whose territorial integrity and sovereignty he said were under threat. But it is also important to see that just as Moscow’s dictatorship was unacceptable in the communist era, the “democratic deficit” of Brussels is also unacceptable today, he added.