Ader: Hungarians rightly proud of 1989 achievements

"After thirty years, we are rightly proud of our achievements in 1989", President Janos Ader said in his address at Hungary's August 20 national holiday, at the oath taking ceremony of some 140 military officers. Since 1989, many dreams such as democracy, a multi-party system, freedom of speech and accession to NATO and the European Union, have come true, while others are yet to be fulfilled, Ader said. With the fall of communism in 1989, the hope returned that Hungary would become a country where "we shape our own laws and expel foreign, barbaric ideas", he said.