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itemprop="headline">Hungary Recalls 1956 Uprising, Awaits 2014 Vote</H1>
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itemprop="articleBody">Hungary's main political parties commemorated the brief
anti-Soviet revolution of 1956 on Wednesday while also focusing on next year's
parliamentary elections.</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">Speaking to a large crowd at Heroes Square, Prime
Minister Viktor Orban lashed out against the opposition Socialist Party,
accusing them of damaging Hungary when they were in power.</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">"It was the former communists who handed over Hungary and
the Hungarian people to the speculators and the international financial
industry," Orban said. "We know that they were the ones and are always the ones
who are ready hand over Hungary to the colonizers."</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">The Socialists and several smaller left-wing groups held
their own 1956 memorial at a university near the banks of the Danube River.
Speakers called for unity as the key to defeating Orban, whose party leads in
polls ahead of elections in April or May.</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">Since winning a landslide in the 2010 elections, Orban's
government has greatly increased the role of the state in the economy and in
many areas of Hungarian life, centralizing the education system, passing a new
constitution and weakening the democratic system of checks and balances.</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">In the past months, energy companies privatized in the
1990s have been forced to cut household utility prices by 20 percent. The
government says more cuts are likely and that it would consider buying back the
energy companies.</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">Orban reminded the crowd estimated by the Justice
Ministry at "hundreds of thousands" that the country recently finished paying
back an IMF-led bailout given to the Socialist government in 2008, while also
levying special taxes on the banking and telecommunications sectors, among
others.</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">"We decided we are not going to live anymore as prisoners
of the international financial funds and that banks and international companies
have to share a bigger load of the common burdens," Orban said.</P>
<P
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itemprop="articleBody">Perhaps taking his cue from a stinging defeat in the 2002
elections after his first four-year term as prime minister, when his re-election
seemed assured, Orban urged his supporters to prepare for the upcoming vote.</P>
<P
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itemprop="articleBody">"There is no need to rush but slowly and surely we to
have to start up the machinery and get our forces ready for battle, just like we
did in 2010," Orban said. "Get ready, now we can finish what we started in
1956."</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">The far-right Jobbik party, which won nearly 17 percent
of the votes in 2010, was equally critical of the government and the left-wing
opposition.</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">Jobbik leader Gabor Vona said only his party could
prevent Hungary from "becoming the doormat of multinational capital and the
European Union."</P>
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itemprop="articleBody">Wednesday was the anniversary of the start of the popular
uprising, which was swiftly crushed by Soviet forces but became a lasting symbol
of the Cold War.</P>
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