Lament for a Ghost of Yesteryear

One can, of course, list pages and pages of treaties, pledges, and all kinds of solemn declarations by the Soviet Union during the past 65 years that have been unilaterally broken by the Soviet Union. The Helsinki agreement, which pledged Soviet respect for human rights, is but one of such violated treaties in recent memory.

However, there is one violation which 1 want now to recall and to memorialize on the 25th anniversary of that violation: the execution, announced on June 16, 1958, of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister; Pal Maleter, the former Defense Minister, and two other associates of Nagy, by the Soviet Union.

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Arnold Beichman

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One can, of course, list pages and pages of treaties, pledges, and all kinds of solemn declarations by the Soviet Union during the past 65 years that have been unilaterally broken by the Soviet Union. The Helsinki agreement, which pledged Soviet respect for human rights, is but one of such violated treaties in recent memory.

However, there is one violation which 1 want now to recall and to memorialize on the 25th anniversary of that violation: the execution, announced on June 16, 1958, of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister; Pal Maleter, the former Defense Minister, and two other associates of Nagy, by the Soviet Union.