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Archbishop Jozsef Grösz of Kalocsa, released from prison on May 12, 1956, celebrates an open-air mass on Corpus Christi day, May 31, 1956.
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Archbishop Jozsef Grösz of Kalocsa, released from prison on May 12, 1956, celebr...

In the 1950s Hungarian citizens were not allowed to own Western currencies. Money received from abroad had to be exchanged for coupons, which were often immediately passed on to customers to be used in special IKKA shops.
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In the 1950s Hungarian citizens were not allowed to own Western currencies. Mone...

A stormy meeting of the Hungarian Writers'Association showed the cracks in the Communist system: Istvan Antos, member of the Communist Party's economic committee, explained the new Five-year-Plan and noted down criti- cism. Next to him Peter Veres,president of the Writers Association.
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A stormy meeting of the Hungarian Writers'Association showed the cracks in the...

In a stormy meeting of the Hungarian Writers' Association, Györgo Szudy called the planned raise of agricultural production "simply idiotic". The Writers' Association was dissolved in January 1957 and permitted to be re-established in 1959 only.
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In a stormy meeting of the Hungarian Writers' Association, Györgo Szudy called t...

Under Hungarian Communism,Protestants,Catholics and Jews were fairly free to exercise their religion,but members of the high clergy were persecuted. A meeting,in Parliament,between members of the Communist government and religious leaders. Budapest,1956
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Under Hungarian Communism,Protestants,Catholics and Jews were fairly free to ex...

Hungarian Revolution 1956: Matyas Rakosi,First Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party,during a session of the Hungarian Parliament.After his fall from Power in the July 1956,he went into exile in the Soviet Union. Rakosi died in Moscow in 1971.Budapest,1956
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Hungarian Revolution 1956: Matyas Rakosi,First Secretary of the Hungarian Commu...

Andras Hegedues,Prime Minister in Communist Hungary (1955-1956,right),next to Isztvan Dobi,former Prime Minister and member of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party.
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Andras Hegedues,Prime Minister in Communist Hungary (1955-1956,right),next to I...

Hungarian Revolution 1956:Matyas Rakosi,First Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party,during a session of the Hungarian Parliament.After his fall from power in the July1956,he went into exile in the Soviet Union. Rakosi died in Moscow in 1971.Budapest,1956
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Hungarian Revolution 1956:Matyas Rakosi,First Secretary of the Hungarian Commun...

Andras Hegedues,Prime Minister in Communist Hungary (1955-1956), 1956-58 emigration in Moscow, returned to Hungary, became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, was demoted because he opposed the Soviet intervention in Cechoslovakia in 1968.
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Andras Hegedues,Prime Minister in Communist Hungary (1955-1956), 1956-58 emigra...

Andras Hegedues,Prime Minister in Communist Hungary (1955-1956,right),talking to Isztvan Dobi,former Prime Minister amd member of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party.
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Andras Hegedues,Prime Minister in Communist Hungary (1955-1956,right),talkin...

Andras Hegedues,Prime Minister in Communist Hungary (1955-1956), 1956-58 emigration in Moscow, returned to Hungary, became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, was demoted because he opposed the Soviet intervention in Cechoslovakia in 1968. Talking to Matyias Rakosi, Secretary General of the Hungarian Communist Party and a former Prime minister (1952-53).
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Andras Hegedues,Prime Minister in Communist Hungary (1955-1956), 1956-58 emigra...

Meeting of a communal agricultural commission under the chairmanship of the Secretary of the Communist Party. On the wall a portrait of Party Secretary Matyas Rakosi, ousted and exiled to the Soviet Union in the spring of 1956.
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Meeting of a communal agricultural commission under the chairmanship of the Secr...