The advice to surrender to the occupying Russian forces instead of resisting came as no surprise, considering the ...

There were also often shortages of food and fuel in Hungary in 1956. July 1956 The USSR orders Hungarian Prime Minister Matyas Rakosi to be replaced by Erno Gero, known for his hardline views.

But despite their eventual defeat, the Hungarian rebels of 1956 inflicted what would come to be known as "the first tear" in the Iron Curtain. Today, the exact locations of many of the most iconic ...

His father became involved in the 1956 Hungarian revolution before Mr Váradi's birth, for which he was briefly jailed and then ostracised from stable work. With his father only occasionally ...

but she’s also a Hungarian immigrant who fled Hungary in 1956 in the Hungarian Revolution. She was a refugee and emigrated to the United States, and much like László started again and lost ...

The liberal politician served two terms, from 1990 until 2000. Göncz participated in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and he was also a founding member and vice chairman of the now defunct ...

The Warsaw Pact meant that the USSR controlled Hungarian foreign policy. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, made a ‘Secret Speech’ in February 1956 which criticised the previous Soviet ...