[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 94 (Wednesday, July 15, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1303]
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                     BALINT VAZSONYI: TRUE AMERICAN

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                       HON. GEORGE P. RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 15, 1998

  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise to commend Dr. Balint Vazsonyi as 
a true American. Balint Vazsonyi knows first-hand what it means to live 
in fear, as he has done so under Nazi occupation then under Communist 
oppression in his native Hungary.
  Overcoming the barriers to human expression put up by authoritarian 
states, Dr. Vazsonyi has since become a world-renowned concert pianist, 
and a well-respected historian and ultimately a United States citizen.
  Dr. Vazsonyi, or just plain ``Balint'', is a regular op-ed 
contributor to the Washington Times as well as several other newspapers 
around the country. He sits on the boards of many community groups and 
is the Director of the Center for the American Founding. As a child he 
lived under Nazi terror and as an adolescent he participated in the 
Hungarian uprising against the Soviet occupiers.
  Balint's musical career is well known. He received his Artist Diploma 
at Budapest's famed Liszt Academy. Just recently, the Hungarian Embassy 
in Washington, DC presented him a gala piano recital in celebration of 
the 50th anniversary of his first concert appearance in Hungary. Balint 
also has a Ph.D. in history.
  I highly recommend to my colleagues, and all Americans, his new book, 
``America's 30 Years War: Who is Winning?'' Drawing on his own life 
experiences he describes how our hard-won freedoms are gradually being 
eroded. Vazsonyi traces the essence of what makes America unique, from 
the Founding until today, and exposes how ideas imported from European 
socialist states are undermining America's distinct political and moral 
culture.
  In a witty and personal style, Balint documents how the founding 
principles of the rule of law, individual rights, secure ownership of 
property and common American identity are being deliberately supplanted 
by the alien notions of group rights, forced redistribution of private 
possessions, and multiculturalism.
  In ``America's 30 Years War: Who is Winning?'' Dr. Vazsonyi shows, 
with unmistakably clarity, how every time we move away from America's 
founding principles we move toward the failed model of European 
socialism.
  Please take time to read this seminal and through-provoking book.
  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate Dr. Balint Vazsonyi on his many 
accomplishments and I ask my colleagues to join me in wishing him many 
more years of success.

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