” “"50 year ago, Hungary went through a huge sacrifice for freedom and for Europe. Now, by helping each other and developing our true values, we can create real unity between the West and the East. Then our sacrifice will not have been lived in vain". It was stated today to SIR by Mihaly Kranitz, professor of theology at the Catholic University of Budapest, for the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 revolution of Budapest, which falls today. "The proclamation of the Republic on October 23rd 1989 gave us freedom recalls Kranitz -. And in 1991 the Soviet troops left the Hungarian soil once and for all". But the changes of 1989-1990, he specifies, "did not make us forget the past. The forty years’ communist rule made itself be felt down to these days, despite parliamentary multi-partyism". "As a member of the European Union states Kranitz Hungary is not easily finding a way to follow yet, and is in an uncertain, actually an explosive, situation, as is proven by the latest events. Today our economy is not stable and the government is not credible for the whole of the country. Cultural and educational contacts too must be intensified, otherwise our hopes for the European Union will remain empty promises". ” “
