The Embassy in Algiers commemorates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

(ANSA) - ROMA, 22 OTT - The Italian Embassy in Algiers, in collaboration with the Hungarian diplomatic mission, hosted a screening of *Children of Glory* in its theater to mark the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The film was directed by Hungarian filmmaker Krisztina Goda and produced by Andy Vajna, an American of Hungarian origin who was among the more than 200,000 people who left the country following the Soviet crackdown. “It is right to remember, even on Italian soil, the tragic events of 1956,” stated Ambassador Alessandra Schiavo, “because the uprising in Budapest was the first in a series of courageous revolts by the peoples of Eastern Europe against Soviet rule. It is important to do so, not only to pay tribute to the thousands of victims and preserve their memory, but also to reflect on the wound inflicted on our continent by the outcome of World War II. It was a historical wound that left Europe divided in two. A wound that led to further bloodshed, lasting until 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and that caused political divisions even within Western countries.” “It is a wound,” the Ambassador continued, “that still challenges our consciences today, four years and eight months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and while many peoples around the world still suffer as a result of repression or conflict.”
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