“Foreign tanks, police, twentysomething girls executed by hanging, workers’ councils derided and prevented from functioning, executions, deported and imprisoned writers, a lying press, work camps, censorship, arrested judges, criminals acting…
Cardinal József Mindszenty was the head of the Hungarian Catholic Church, who was arrested on false charges just before Christmas, December 23, 1948. In the subsequent show trial in February…
Following the overwhelming force of the Soviet invasion launched on November 4th, those who participated in the revolution had to escape the country or go into hiding. Most of them,…
Mobile phones were still rare back in 1999, so when I went in search of the people who had participated in the 1956 Revolution, I used a phonebook to look…
The Bridge at Andau. “It was about the most inconsequential bridge in Europe, but by an accident of history it became, for a few flaming weeks, one of the most…
Noel Barber was a journalist with the British tabloid the Daily Mail, who holds the distinction of being the first western journalist to have interviewed Imre Nagy in October 1956…
Many of the reporters present in Budapest during the revolution had been to the Hungarian capital before. One such reporter was John MacCormac, who had already visited the country several…
Following the overthrow of the 1956 Revolution and to use a familiar expression, it was said that 200 thousand people “voted with their feet” against the communist regime and left…
The bridge at Andau, a small wooden expanse, stands right on the Austro-Hungarian border that crosses the Einserkanal, a minor river in the Hanság region of Western Hungary. Following the…
If you know ‘56, you know that strange flag, the red, white and green with the hole in the middle. Here’s how it became the symbol of the revolution. The…