Bon anniversaire, Budapest

Les célébrations du 50ème anniversaire de l’insurrection de Budapest sont marquées en Hongrie par de nombreux incidents, — les pires qu’ait connus ce pays, justement depuis ceux d’octobre 1956. La crise actuelle s’est ouverte il y a un peu plus d’un mois.

L’opposition entre la droite et la gauche socialiste (au pouvoir) est très violente en Hongrie, notamment appuyée sur des accusations de “recyclage” d’anciens communistes. La situation est très particulière dans la mesure où la gauche au pouvoir, avec ses éventuels anciens communistes, applique un programme économique hyper-libéral appuyé par les USA (et la Commission européenne). Ces troubles se développent sur un fond de mise en question historique des circonstances de l’insurrection de 1956.

Selon The Independent de ce jour :

«The main centre-right opposition party, Fidesz, has orchestrated a month of often violent protests in Budapest after the socialist Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, admitted in a leaked speech last month that his government had consistently lied to the public to win an election last April. "We lied in the morning, we lied in the evening", he told a party meeting.

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»A remembrance ceremony was held at the grave of Imre Nagy, where the former Europe minister, Denis MacShane, representing Britain, laid a wreath in memory of the reformist prime minister. He was scrubbed from the history books after being hanged following a show trial in 1958, but his reputation was restored by Hungary in 1989.

»Fidesz, meanwhile, held its own 1956 commemoration, attended by tens of thousands of people. Such is the political division of Hungarian society that the left and right have not celebrated the anniversary of the uprising together for several years, as bitter memories were rekindled.

»Some commentators have suggested that the current crisis stems from Hungary's failure to purge ex-Communists from public life, as other former Soviet states have done since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

»Mr Gyurcsany's own role in the 50th anniversary commemorations has been questioned by the right. He is a former Communist youth leader whose socialists are heir to the Communists who ruled the country for 33 years after Soviet troops put down the 1956 uprising. Some veterans of the 1956 uprising refuse to shake hands with him.»

Mis en ligne le 24 octobre 2006 à 06H54