: Remarks by: Werner I. Juretzko made at the reception presenting:
: " The Cold War Museum Project and Commemorating the Hungarian
: Revolution of 1956"
: held at the Embassy of Hungary in Washington, DC

: 1956, I was a political prisoner myself, just starting a 13-year
: sentence in the notorious "Red Hell" of Brandenburg, a
: maximum-security prison, some 40 miles south of Berlin.

: Yes, during these years, I encountered many fearful situations;
: but none has ever driven so much fear into the life of us prisoners than
: the time during the Hungarian Uprising.

: First, it started with a total lock-down. Then, the encirclement
: of the outside prison by tanks and dug-in Army Troops. Flame-throwers
: directed at the cells, barricaded behind sandbags inside the hallways.
: Loudspeakers announced: "That hoodlums, paid, inspired and controlled
: by the monopol-imperialistic American Wallstreet warmongers, have taken
: over the streets of Budapest, storming the prisons, freeing the
: criminals and the rest of the scum of the human race, which now drowns
: Hungary in a huge puddle of "blood and tears".

: This will not happen here! Screamed the announcer! The slightest
: attempt of any action - and you will be barbecued via flame-throwers.

It is a pity and a deadly mistake of our comrades that they didn't actually barbecue you and the other anti- communist scum that undermined socialism during all these years.

NEXT TIME WE WON'T REPEAT THE SAME MISTAKE