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Aftermath of the Hungarian revolution.
Membership meeting of an agricultural cooperative in Karzag in the Hungarian Puszta, the vast plain in the East of the country. Members elected officials and presidents, but voting was usually along lines prescribed by the Communist Party.
Karzag, 1956
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Aftermath of the Hungarian revolution. Membership meeting of an agricultural co...

Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution.
A woman carrying a Christmas tree. The winter of 1956 was bitterly cold; food and fuel were scarce.
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Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. A woman carrying a Christmas tree. The w...

Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution.
A woman carrying a Christmas tree. The winter of 1956 was bitterly cold; food and fuel were scarce. In a burnt-out shop, a woman sells necklaces, rings and other trinkets.
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Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. A woman carrying a Christmas tree. The w...

Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution.
After the crushing of the Revolution by Soviet troops, a woman sells Christmas trees near Erszebet-Bridge. 
Budapest, December 1956
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Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. After the crushing of the Revolution by...

Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. 
An old woman sells candles for Christmas trees.                     
Budapest, December 1956
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Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. An old woman sells candles for Christma...

Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. 
An old woman sells candles for Christmas trees.                     
Budapest, December 1956
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Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. An old woman sells candles for Christma...

Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution.
Life and happiness seem to return to snowed-under, artillery-     
damaged Budapest: a young couple leave church after their wedding. 
Budapest, 1956
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Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. Life and happiness seem to return to sno...

Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution.
An old woman pulls three heavy bags through the snow.
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Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. An old woman pulls three heavy bags thro...

Meeting of the Socialist International,Vienna 1957:
Anna Kehtly of Hungary,John Evatt,Australia.Kethly,a
social-democratic politician and member of the (pre-
Communist)Parliament,was sentenced in a show trial
under Rakosi.She was a minister in the Nagy-Cabinet.
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Meeting of the Socialist International,Vienna 1957: Anna Kehtly of Hungary,John...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian
Revolution.Andras B.Hegedues,former Secretary of the
Petoefi Club,in front of the gate to the house of Imre
Nagy,Prime-Minister during the Revolution.Memorial
plaque at the gate.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution.Andras B.Hegedues,for...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian        
Revolution.Children play on Koeztarsasag Square.       
One one side of the square stood the  former head-     
quarters of the feared Secret Police of Communist      
Hungary. See 56-09-11/20,56-09-14/13,56-09-09/10A.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution.Children play...

The statue of Imre Nagy, Prime minister during the Revolution, stands near the Hungarian Parliament, site of some of the fiercest battles in 1956. Nagy was executed in 1958.
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The statue of Imre Nagy, Prime minister during the Revolution, stands near the H...