“Through this contribution the people of Hungary would like to thank Canada for providing refuge and a new home for those Hungarians who fled after the revolution in 1956”, said Zoltan Balog, Minister of Human Resources of Hungary. “We also would like to thank Canadians of Hungarian decent for their tremendous help and contribution to end Communist oppression in Hungary and in the rest of the World.”
The official cheque hand over ceremony of Hungary's contribution to the Ottawa Memorial to the Victims of Communism took place in the House of Terror – a World known museum that most prominently exposes the crimes of Communism. “This museum exhibits how Communism destroyed lives of millions of people in this country. The whole World has to know about the dangers of Communist regimes and be alert and ready to prevent them from occurring again”, said Mária Schmidt, Director-General of the House of Terror Museum in Budapest.
Ludwik Klimkowski, Chair of Tribute to Liberty gratefully accepted the Hungarian donation and concluded: “The legacy of Communist oppression left hundreds of thousands of stories of crippled human lives in the European country of Hungary. 37,000 of these victims and their stories made it to Canada in 1956-1957. These stories of human lives are now a part of Canada's history and it is our task to share as many of them as possible through the Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa.”
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