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Andras Hegedues,Hungarian Stalinist and Prime Minister from May through October 1956,photographed shortly before his death in 1999. After two years of exile in Moscow after the Revolution,he fell out of favour when he oppoesed the intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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Andras Hegedues,Hungarian Stalinist and Prime Minister from May through October...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Katalin Janosi,a gifted painter,grand- daughter of Prime Minister Imre Nagy.She is the little girl in 56-05-42/9.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: Katalin Jano...

When Imre Nagy announced that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact,the Soviets decided that the Revolution had gone too far and sent the Red Army to crush it. 42 years later,on February 18,1998,the Hungarian Parliament voted to apply for membership in NATO.
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When Imre Nagy announced that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact,the Soviets...

When Imre Nagy announced that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact,the Soviets decided that the Revolution had gone too far and sent the Red Army to crush it. 42 years later,on February 18,1998,the Hungarian Parliament voted to apply for membership in NATO.
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When Imre Nagy announced that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact,the Soviets...

Budapest revisited:For photographer Lessing,who had known them 42 years ago,the members of the Petoefi Club met once more in the hall where their deliberations had triggered the Revolution of 1956.Reunions were poignant Few of the old combatants had kept in touch and the formerly simple meeting place had become the center of a bank, with marble floors and stucco ornaments on the walls.
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Budapest revisited:For photographer Lessing,who had known them 42 years ago,the...

Budapest revisited:For photographer Lessing,who had known them 42 years ago,the members of the Petoefi Cercle met once more in 1998, in the hall where their deliberations had triggered the Revolution of 1956. Center: Emil Horn, now curator of the Museum of the History of the Hungarian Revolution.
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Budapest revisited:For photographer Lessing,who had known them 42 years ago,the...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution.Arpad Goencz,President of the Hungarian Republic,during a meeting in his office.On the wall a portrait of Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894),Hungarian national hero who fought for Hungary's independence from the Habsburg Empire.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution.Arpad Goencz,Preside...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution.Arpad Goencz,President of the Hungarian Republic,during a meeting in his office.On the wall a portrait of Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894),Hungarian national hero who fought for Hungary's independence from the Habsburg Empire.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution.Arpad Goencz,Preside...

Andras Hegedues,a leading Stalinist and Hungarian Prime Minister from May through October 1956.After two years of exile in Moscow,he returned to Hungary, but fell out of favour when he opposed Soviet inter- vention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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Andras Hegedues,a leading Stalinist and Hungarian Prime Minister from May...

Budapest revisited:Arpad Goencz,President of Hungary, in his office. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after the Revolution.On the wall a portrait of Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894),statesman and Hungarian national hero,who fought for Hungary's independence.from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
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Budapest revisited:Arpad Goencz,President of Hungary, in his office. He was s...

Andras Hegedues,a leading Stalinist and Hungarian Prime Minister from May through October 1956.After two years of exile in Moscow,he returned to Hungary, but fell out of favour with the Communist Party when he opposed Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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Andras Hegedues,a leading Stalinist and Hungarian Prime Minister from May...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: The Martyrs' Cemetery - Rakoskereszturer Cemetery - where most of the executed insurgents were buried. In the foreground the tombstone of Ilona Toth, a physician in a Budapest hospital. The member of a group of Freedom Fighters, she was executed at age 25. Between December 1956 and June 1961, 350 to 400 people were executed because of their involvement in the Revolution.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution: The Martyrs' Cemet...