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CONFERENCE MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF NATIONAL MEMORIAL COMMITTEE

 

Hungarians believe “that it is always the graves of the ancestors that turn a country into a homeland”, Speaker of Parliament László Kövér told a conference marking the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Hungary’s National Memorial and Funerary Committee in Parliament. Following Hungary’s change of political regime in 1989-1990, it took another ten years to establish the institutional foundations of the country’s “funerary regime change” with the formation of the National Memorial and Funerary Committee, the speaker said. The culture of “falsification, forgetting, ungratefulness and indifference” when it came to the sacrifices of Hungary’s heroes during the communist era “needed to be replaced by a culture of national remembrance, gratitude and respect”, Kövér said.