Stalinist Gulags history’s ‘lowest’ point, says justice minister – UPDATE

Budapest (MTI) – Stalinism and the system of Gulags was one of the lowest points of not only the 20th century but the whole of history, Justice Minister László Trócsányi said at an event on Monday, on the eve of commemorations of the victims of totalitarian regimes.

Trócsányi said “we must say never again” to these “ugly sores on the face of Europe and the whole world”. He said that bolshevism had placed humans against humans and communities against communities, glorifying violence. This “illness” has passed, but the viruses are still present and even the best constitution and laws are not able to completely wipe them out, he said.

“Remembering helps the heart heal and the immune system of communities strengthen against evil,” he said.

Since 2009, Europe has declared August 23, the day the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed in 1939, the memorial day for victims of totalitarian regimes.

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UPDATE

Ministry of Justice, Press release – Bolshevism was an ideology that promised heaven on Earth while it denied God – and thereby man itself. At the very least it denied the universal character of man: according to Communism there are no universal human values, only class consciousness, class interest and a specific class morality, he added.

László Trócsányi described how the Stalinist regime broke not only away from the rule of law, but also from the principle of individual responsibility – a fundamental achievement of European and universal human civilization. He recalled that the Soviet Criminal Code of 1934 set it out as a separate case if someone was “a family member of the enemy of people”.