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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union (USSR).
Due to a lack of jobs, declining quality of life, and the failure of the Hungarian economy, an uprising occurred on October 23, 1956. The Corvin Passage was immediately recognized by the rebels as a strategic location due to its importance as a traffic junction, and its strategic value near the Kilian Barracks and the Budapest Radio Station.
Listed below are some significant events in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which began on October 23, 1956, and was brutally crushed by Soviet forces in November.. On October 22 - one day before the Revolution - Technical University students established the "Association of Hungarian University and College Students" (MEFESZ), expressed their famous 16 claims and organized a rally to the ...
In the 1950s the Army was equipped with T-34/85 tanks, as well as 68 IS-2s, which were in service between 1950 and 1956. After the crackdown of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 all were returned to the Soviet Union. [8] The Army had 1,200 T-54 and T-55 tanks in 1988. It also had about 100 Soviet-made T-72s in its inventory.
Operation Safe Haven, also known as Operation Mercy, was a refugee relief and resettlement operation executed by the United States following the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. [1] The airlift was ordered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on December 10, 1956.
The State Protection Authority (Hungarian: Államvédelmi Hatóság or ÁVH, referred to as "AVO" in the book) was the secret police of Hungary from 1945 until 1956. It was conceived as an external appendage of the Soviet Union's secret police forces and gained an indigenous reputation for brutality during a series of purges beginning in 1948, intensifying in 1949 and ending in 1953.
Pages in category "Hungarian Revolution of 1956" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Gergely Pongrátz (Gherla, 18 February 1932 – Kiskunmajsa, 18 May 2005) was a Hungarian revolutionary and prominent veteran of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.He was the commander of arguably the largest and perhaps the best-known group of fighters [citation needed], at the revolution's strongest and most lengthy point of resistance, Budapest's Corvin Passage (Corvin Köz); between 1 and 9 ...