- For Freedom and Truth
"For Freedom and Truth" was the last
proclamation of theHungarian National Government written on4 November 1956 inBudapest ,Hungary , just after theHungarian Revolution of 1956 , by Minister of StateBibó István in the parliament building as the author, and the only person and representative of the government remaining in the parliament, awaited arrest by theSoviet military forces.http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/For_Freedom_and_Truth]History
The Soviet army attacked the dawn of 4 November 1956 and
Nagy Imre visited the Soviet embassy for negotiations but did not return. In the morningTildy Zoltán together withSzabó István andBibó István held a meeting in the parliament, but when the Soviet troops reached and surrounded the bulding Tildy Zoltán went to negotiate with them and reached an agreement: the Soviets could occupy the building after all civilians left safely and Tildy Zoltán would leave as well.Bibó István was the only person who remained in the parliament building and considered himself the only representative of the Hungarian government at the time, which made him write the proclamation.The proclamation
The proclamation claimed that the Hungarian government did not seek to pursue an anti-Soviet policy, and denounced accusations that the revolution was orchestrated by
fascist s. It proposed that the Hungarian government would have been able to limitmob rule and said that the intervention of a foreign army was the major cause of tensions.Bibó István called the
Hungarians to not recognise the Soviet military or the Sovietpuppet government as legal authority, and to resist them with passivecivil disobedience , but not acivil war . The author had been in the government for only one day and claimed that the reason he did not call for armed resistance was that he was not aware of the military situation.The author called the world
great power s and theUnited Nations to protect thefreedom of the Hungarian nation in accordance with theUnited Nations Charter .The proclamation declared Minister of State
Kéthly Anna to be the only authorised representative of the Hungarian government abroad.References
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