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At 4 o’clock in the morning, November 4, 1956, the Soviet forces launched their attack on the Hungarian capital under the direct authority of General Vasily Kazakov as part of…

East-Central Europe has three symbolic dates when it comes to freedom: 1956 for Hungary, 1968 for Czechoslovakia and 1989 for the system changes to democracy as well as the Romanian…

The communist party, officially known as the Hungarian Workers’ Party, did everything they could in the interest of liquidating their enemies, real and imagined. We can add that despite being…

The fate of Tibor Sörte, who was 23 years old in 1956, further shows how the post-revolution reprisals overseen by Communist Party chief János Kádár reached into the most intimate…

Tamás Kiss was a second year law student from Szeged who participated in the drafting of the 16 Points put forth by the Association of Hungarian University and College Unions…

At 4:15 in the morning, Operation Whirlwind was launched with the explicit intent of crushing the revolution. Shortly after 5 AM a radio broadcast was aired with János Kádár announcing…

With the storm on the horizon consisting of Soviet troops rapidly approaching, the third Nagy Government was formed. This government differed from the earlier governments because it included all of…

With the die now cast, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev conducted negotiations with the other communist countries in regards to Hungary, especially Yugoslavia, which while communist, was not part of the…

November 1st began with negotiations between the worker’s council and the government, which resulted in an appeal for people to go back to work and to end the strike. Later…

Following the end of the one-party state the day before and the earlier announcement that the ÁVH secret police would be disbanded, General Béla Király, a political prisoner who had…