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The Hungarian Revolution 1956

By Erwin Schmidl, László Ritter, Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
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By Erwin Schmidl, László Ritter, Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
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The Hungarian Revolution of October 1956 was the most important armed rising against the USSR during the Cold War (1946-1991). Inspired by riots in East Germany (1953), and the example of Soviet troop withdrawal leading to Austrian neutrality (1955), there were spontaneous demonstrations by students and workers, mainly in Budapest. When the Hungarian police tried to crush them, Hungarian soldiers joined the insurgents and fought back so effectively that the first Soviet troops sent in were ...

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HistoryRussian & Soviet HistoryEuropean History1917-1991 (Soviet Union) - HistoryEastern European HistoryKhrushchev Era (1953-1964)Austria & Hungary - History