Govt marks memorial day of victims of totalitarian regimes

At an event marking Black Ribbon Day, the European memorial day remembering the victims of totalitarian regimes, a government official said it was "our duty" to "reveal the sins of the 20th century for younger generations and to make sure they will never be repeated". Deputy State Secretary Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky said in Budapest on Sunday that the event is held in remembrance of the victims of both Nazism and Communism. Both regimes had destroyed "many communities in Europe by collectively stigmatising groups of people and creating a new ruling elite which then perfected the art of denunciation and controlled the whole of society".