US President Biden in Fiery Speech Likens Ukraine War to Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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- 29 Mar 2022
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In a major address delivered in Warsaw on Saturday, US president Joe Biden drew parallels between the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the subsequent anti-Soviet uprisings and the situation of today’s war-torn Ukraine. According to Biden, the fight for democracy and freedom did not end with the fall of the Iron Curtain.
“My message to the people of Ukraine is the message I delivered today to Ukraine’s Foreign Minister and Defense Minister, who I believe are here tonight: We stand with you. Period,” said the president. He added that the brave resistance of the people of Ukraine is part of a larger fight for essential democratic principles that unite all free people. But these principles have always been under siege and every generation has had to defeat democracy’s mortal foes, the president stressed.
“Today’s fightings in Kyiv and Mariupol and Kharkiv are the latest battles in a long struggle: Hungary, 1956; Poland, 1956, then again 1981; Czechoslovakia, 1968,” President Biden emphasized.
“Soviet tanks crushed democratic uprisings, but the resistance continued until finally, in 1989, the Berlin Wall and all of the walls of Soviet domination — they fell. They fell. And the people prevailed,” the US President continued, adding that the struggle for democracy was not over. Read More...
