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195623 October–10 November 1956 · Budapest

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Street fighting aftermath at the Kilián Barracks junction in Budapest during the 1956 revolution
Archival image: Unknown author. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A student march in Budapest became a national uprising: crowds toppled Stalin's statue and fought the secret police and Soviet tanks, and Prime Minister Imre Nagy announced that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact. On 4 November Soviet forces returned in strength and crushed the revolt. About 2,500 Hungarians were killed, some 200,000 fled abroad, and Nagy was hanged in 1958.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Kossuth Square and ParliamentMemorial with bullet marks recalling the shooting of 25 October.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: House of TerrorFormer secret police headquarters, now a museum.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: Corvin PassageCinema courtyard held by young insurgents.Map ↗

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