Roland Balogh on the stolen anniversary

Roland Balogh writes in the conservative anti-government daily Magyar Nemzet that the commemoration of the political change of 1989 can by no means be a joyful celebration. "The disappointments of the past two decades are manifest in the commemorations. The nation whose people wanted to take home a piece of the barbed wire in 1989 is not even capable of celebrating the occasion with fervour today. This is admittedly all too understandable when we consider that the most important Hungarian celebrations have been officially celebrated in the past years by those who would happily have nipped the 1989 upheaval in the bud. How can a country where the heirs of the former communist party - the Socialist Party (MSZP) - call the shots joyfully celebrate this anniversary? … In this context we shouldn't be surprised that the international media are paying little attention to the anniversary in Hungary. … In the past seven years, or in other words since the Socialists took power, all that the fall of the Iron Curtain [once] represented has been stolen from us."

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