Deeply moving speech in defense of the right of the Hungarian people to political independence and national freedom. Small countries are no less concerned with retaining their national and political identity than Great Powers. The Uprising was a spontaneous outburst of the Hungarian people against the intolerable oppression of tyrannical and largely alien rule, and for the cause of national freedom. Also citing Khrushchev, the draft report accuses the Rákosi regime of excesses regarding the uprising, in opposition to the official Hungarian version that the uprising was incited and organized from outside with the aid of propaganda, money and gun-running.
Context
Creation Note:
Records of this digital collection were assembled to document the work of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary established on January 10, 1957 by the United Nations General Assembly for the purpose of investigating the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Principal contributor(s): United Nations. General Assembly
Source:
Records of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary: UN Documents (HU OSA 398-0-1)
"Report to be Introduced to the Plenary Session: Addressed to the President", 25 November 1959. HU OSA 398-0-1-6430; Records of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary: UN Documents; Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest.
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