If you were to travel south from Budapest to the town of Kiskunmajsa, you would find a museum dedicated to the 1956 Revolution. This museum was founded by the legendary…
The western journalists who came to Hungary in droves during the 1956 Revolution did not shy away from putting their lives in danger to get a good story. Despite this,…
The communist system was no fan of those who worked on their own, not in industry or in agriculture, for people who worked and thought on their own were more…
For the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution, a short video series was produced to remember and honor those Roma who, like their fellow countrymen, participated in this fight for…
These days Tamás Vásáry is a famous conductor who works for the Hungarian National Radio as the music director of its orchestra. He has also racked up a Kossuth Prize…
Unattended boxes were placed at various points of Budapest during the days of the revolution, which soon filled with money. Written onto these boxes were the simple words “the purity…
Western journalists arrived to Hungary looking for a story and threw themselves into the middle of the maelstrom that was the 1956 Revolution. In Budapest, they discovered that their ability…
The protests of October 23, 1956 that grew into the revolution were launched by the university and college students. When the students had finalized their 16 points demanding democratic changes…
In the 1950s, “buzzer terror” and “black car visits” became everyday, or rather every night occurrences. What this meant was that people grew to fear the ringing of their doorbells…
Aurél Varannai was a rarity among those working for foreign media companies, since he had first-hand experience with the torture-filled Rákosi-era prison system. What had been his crime? Simply working…