Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hungarian Revolution of 1956; Part of the Cold War: From top to bottom, left to right: The rebels flag · Speaker addresses to a crowd from an abandoned Soviet tank · Caricature of Mátyás Rákosi with suitcases going to the Soviet border · Search for Stalinist era mass graves and underground party bunkers · Hungarian Patriot, Time Magazine Man of the Year · Severed Stalin's head of a ...
On November 11: The fall of the Revolution in Csepel, the 21st district of Budapest. On November 18 a seven meter long Hungarian flag rolled in the wind from the torch of the Statue of Liberty in New York City , pinned there by a group of Hungarian immigrants, who also spread out an even bigger banner saying: "SAVE HUNGARY, END GENOCIDE".
The Revolutionary Workers'-Peasants' Government of Hungary (Hungarian: magyar Forradalmi Munkás-Paraszt Kormány), or the First Kádár government (első Kádár-kormány), was formed during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 with Soviet support with the aim of replacing the Imre Nagy government.
During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 the Smallholders' Party was revived under the leadership of Zoltan Tildy and Béla Kovács, who had returned from Soviet exile earlier that year. Both of them joined the democratic coalition government of Imre Nagy on 27 October 1956 which was brought to power in the Revolution, as the first non ...
The Hungarian Working People's Party (Hungarian: Magyar Dolgozók Pártja, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈdolɡozoːk ˈpaːrcɒ], abbr. MDP) was the ruling communist party of Hungary from 1948 to 1956. It was formed by a merger of the Hungarian Communist Party (MKP) and the Social Democratic Party of Hungary (MSZDP). [ 1 ]
Dudás was an odd character but there were rumors about him among the revolutionary forces, such as that he sat around a desk with hoards of cash, and had a torture chamber for members of Hungary's AVH Secret Police. Rumors that Dudás thought he could take over in place of the newly appointed Nagy circulated, and in an attempt to take over the ...
The demands. On October 22, 1956, a group of Hungarian students compiled a list of sixteen points containing key national policy demands. [1] Following an anti-Soviet protest march through the Hungarian capital of Budapest, the students attempted to enter the city's main broadcasting station to read their demands on the air.
Hungarian Revolution most often refers to: Hungarian Revolution of 1848; Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920), the Communist revolution to establish the Hungarian Soviet Republic; Hungarian Revolution of 1956; Hungarian Revolution can also refer to: Rákóczi's War of Independence; Aster Revolution; End of communism in Hungary ...