[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 143 (Monday, October 21, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1943]
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 THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION--REFLECTIONS OF 
                              CHARLES GATI

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                            HON. TOM LANTOS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 21, 1996

  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, as we approach the end of October, we will 
mark the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1956 Hungarian 
Revolution. This is a particularly significant event because that 
uprising of the Hungarian people against communism and against the 
Soviet domination of the Hungarian nation was one of the most dramatic 
and critical events of the cold war era.
  As we reach the last days of October when the dramatic events 
unfolded 40 years ago, it is appropriate that we here in the United 
States--and particularly that we as Members of Congress--remember the 
events of 1956. It is most appropriate that we pay tribute to the brave 
people of Hungary who rose up against Soviet tanks and the heavily 
armed Red Army in an effort to win their freedom and regain their 
national independence.
  Mr. Speaker, one of the individuals who was a young man in Budapest 
at the time of those tumultuous events four decades ago was Dr. Charles 
Gati, who was one of the hundreds of thousands of Hungarians who fled 
their country in the aftermath of that tragic revolution. We are 
fortunate, indeed, to have him here as an American today, one of our 
finest scholars and analysts of Central and Eastern Europe.

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