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Under Hungarian Communism,Protestants,Catholics and Jews were fairly free to exercise their religion,but leaders of the Christian churches were persecuted. Cardinal Joszef Mindszenty,with well-wisher,after his release from prison, Budapest,October 1956.
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Under Hungarian Communism,Protestants,Catholics and Jews were fairly free to...

The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956.It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. Insurgents resting.Budapest,1956
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 2...

The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956.It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. Wounded insurgent eating bread and butter.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 2...

Headquarters of the Corvin Lane group of insurgents, commanded by Gergely Pongratz. The headquarters were in a private apartment near the Corvin cinema.
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Headquarters of the Corvin Lane group of insurgents, commanded by Gergely Pongra...

The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956. It was crushed by Soviet troops after days of street fighting. Insurgents remove the portrait of Lenin in the citz hall of Györ in West Hungary on 30 October.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956....

The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956. It was crushed by Soviet troops after days of street fighting. Insurgents remove the portrait of Lenin in the citz hall of Györ in West Hungary on 30 October.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956....

The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956. It was crushed by Soviet troops after days of street fighting. Insurgents remove the portrait of Lenin in the citz hall of Györ in West Hungary on 30 October.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956....

The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956. It was crushed by Soviet troops after days of street fighting. Insurgents remove the portrait of Lenin in the citz hall of Györ in West Hungary on 30 October.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956....

The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956. It was crushed by Soviet troops after days of street fighting. Insurgents remove the portrait of Lenin in the citz hall of Györ in West Hungary on 30 October.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a mass-rally in Budapest on 23October 1956....

Attila Szigethy (left, in profile), head of Györ's Transdanubian National Council during the days of the Revolution. Szigethy was arrested in 1957. In prison, he committed suicide under unexplained circumstances.
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Attila Szigethy (left, in profile), head of Györ's Transdanubian National Counci...

The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956.It was crushed by Soviet troops after days of street-fighting.By December 1956 155.000 refugees had crossed the Austro-Hungarian frontier.They were first received in Andau-camp.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 2...

The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956.It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. Magnum Photographer Ernst Haas,covering the Hungarian Revolution,in a refugee camp in Andau,Austria.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 2...