Remembrance Day of Hungarian Forced Labourers in the Soviet Union marked in Budapest
The traditional values that the Soviet dictatorship tried to destroy are still under threat today, Finance Minister Mihaly Varga said on Saturday marking the Remembrance Day of Hungarian Forced Labourers in the Soviet Union.
Varga told an event at the memorial of the victims of Soviet occupation in Budapest that the government was protecting families, supporting churches and standing up for a Europe of nation states and Hungary’s sovereignty.
It is an obligation today to guarantee and maintain the opportunity for remembrance, which is why parliament decided in 2012 to declare November 25 the Memorial Day of Soviet-deported Hungarian Political Prisoners and Forced Labourers who were taken to the Soviet Union, he added.
In addition to Varga, President Katalin Novak, House Speaker Laszlo Kover and representatives of the supreme court, the chief prosecutor’s office, the ministry of defence and the Hungarian army laid wreaths at the memorial.
