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| Memorial for communist hero Nikos Beloyannis in Beloiannisz, Hungary. |
Members and supporters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in Hungary have issued a statement denouncing the anti-communist content of a conference (“Trauma and Appeasement”) organized on Sunday 23 April by the Budapest-based “Greek Institute” (Görög Intézet.
More specifically, in a statement published in 902 portal the KKE Friends' Club in Hungary point out:
“A conference that insults History and memory of the families of political refugees and Hungary's Greeks as a whole is being organized by the known anti-communist center named “Greek Institute”, sponsored by the Government of Hungary. The so-called “conference” is held in the place that hosted dozens of children who came in socialist Hungary after the defeat of the heroic Democratic Army of Greece in order to be saved from the bombs of the imperialists and their Greek collaborators and the barbaric plans of the bourgeois class against the Greek people”.
The KKE Friends Club adds that the organizers, namely Spyros Agardi, director of the “Greek Institute” and Laokratis Koranis, Greek Diaspora representative at the Hungarian Parliament, are mouthpieces of the Hungarian Government and seek to rewrite the history of the political refugees, using lies and historical forgery.
“It is not a coincidence – the KKE Friends Club underlines – that they have invited notorious anti-communist professors like Marantzidis and Tsivos, who are “masters” in unhistorical manipulations and distortions”.
“Their anti-communist propaganda, the mudslinging against socialism, the provocative theory of the two extremes which is promoted by the EU with big funds, aims to defend the capitalist barbarism that the people are experiencing, exploitation, poverty, price rise and imperialist wars”, the statement adds.
The KKE Friends Club in Hungary calls the country's Greeks to ignore the anti-communist voices and strengthen the Communist Party in the upcoming Parliamentary Elections of May 21. “We must strengthen the KKE, the voice that defends historical memory and the struggle of the political refugees and their families, fighting for the contemporary needs of the Greeks of Hungary, their working and educational rights”, the statement concludes.
It must be noted that socialist Hungary became the destination for hundreds of political refugees after the 1946 – 1949 Greek Civil War who settled in the country and organized themselves in communities. An emblematic example of this is Beloiannisz village, named after communist hero Nikos Beloyannis, the KKE cadre who was executed by the Greek bourgeois state in 1952.
