imre nagy's SPEECHES
"March 1848! Is there one single Hungarian patriot whose heart does not throb with enthusiasm remembering this great time? Kossuth, Táncsics, Petőfi! Is there one true Hungarian patriot whose cheeks are not flushed with national pride hearing these names? [...] The Hungarian people, who had submerged during tumultuous centuries of European history, rose once again in 1848, and embracing the progressive ideas of the era and in a wonderful heroic fight became the leader of the freedom-loving peoples. Hungarians proved that self-sacrifice and the noble ideals of progress, freedom of people and humanism can make a tiny nation great and glorious."
- Imre Nagy
IMRE NAGY'S LAST SPEECH: 4 NOVEMBER 1956.
English translation:
"This fight is the fight for freedom by the Hungarian people against the Russian intervention, and it is possible that I shall only be able to stay at my post for one or two hours. The whole world will see how the Russian armed forces, contrary to all treaties and conventions, are crushing the resistance of the Hungarian people. They will also see how they are kidnapping the prime minister of a country which is a member of the United Nations, taking him from the capital, and therefore it cannot be doubted at all that this is the most brutal form of intervention. I should like in these last moments to ask the leaders of the revolution, if they can, to leave the country. I ask that all that I have said in my broadcast, and what we have agreed on with the revolutionary leaders during meetings in Parliament, should be put in a memorandum, and the leaders should turn to all the peoples of the world for help and explain that today it is Hungary and tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, it will be the turn of other countries, because the imperialism of Moscow does not know borders and is only trying to play for time."
-Imre Nagy, 1956