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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. In front of the just-conquered AVH Headquarters, passers-by burn pictures of Party Secretary Matyas Rakosi.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23...

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. In front of the just-conquered AVH Headquarters, passers-by burn pictures of Party Secretary Matyas Rakosi.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23...

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. A dead AVH-man, killed during the storming of the Headquarters of the Communist Hungarian Working People's Party, is decked out with a picture of Rakosi.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23...

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. A dead AVH-man, killed during the storming of the Headquarters of the Communist Hungarian Working People's Party, is decked out with a picture of Rakosi.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23...

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. A dead AVH-man, killed during the storming of the Headquarters of the Communist Hungarian Working People's Party, is decked out with a picture of Rakosi.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23...

Imre Nagy, Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist, at his home with his granddaughter Katalin. Hungarian Prime Minister from 1953-1955, destituted by the Stalinists under Matyas Rakosi and made Prime Minister at the beginning of the Revolution on October 24, 1956. After the Soviets crushed the Revolution, Nagy was imprisoned and executed in June 1958. See 98-01-19/21,37 and 98-01-07/13A
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Imre Nagy, Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist, at his home with his granddaughte...

Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. On a Budapest factory wall, the letters "MSZMP" (short for "Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party") stand for an anti-Stalinist party founded on October 31, 1956 by members of the Hungarian Communist Party, under the leadership of Imre Nagy and Janos Kadar. When the revolution was crushed, Kadar adopted the name for the post-revolution Communist Party, which existed until 1989.
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Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. On a Budapest factory wall, the letters...

Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. On a Budapest factory wall, the letters "MSZMP" (short for "Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party") stand for an anti-Stalinist party founded on October 31, 1956 by members of the Hungarian Communist Party, under the leadership of Imre Nagy and Janos Kadar. When the revolution was crushed, Kadar adopted the name for the post-revolution Communist Party, which existed until 1989.
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Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. On a Budapest factory wall, the letters...

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...

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...

Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution.The Kilian-Barracks in Budapest,where Col.Pal Maleter and his men held out against Soviet artillery and tanks for several days; there were only 17 survivors. Maleter was executed together with Imre Nagy.
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Budapest revisited 42 years after the Hungarian Revolution.The Kilian-Barracks i...