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 ...
If Russia rolled its tanks into Hungary as it did in 1956, Budapest would have thought twice about defending itself from the invasion, unlike Kyiv, according to the Hungarian premier's political ...
In these 19 days, while the Russians cruelly repressed but could not crush the Hungarian rebellion, another battle was going on throughout the Communist world: a frantic attempt to fasten the ...
At a rally to commemorate the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, Hungary's Viktor Orban compared the EU to the Soviet Union and ...
4 Nov 1956 Khrushchev sends the Red Army back into Hungary and Budapest. Hungarian citizens clash with Soviet troops in Budapest. 10 Nov 1956 A ceasefire is agreed. Date July 1956 Event The USSR ...