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Budapest, 1956
Oct–Nov 1956 — Hungary rises, declares neutrality, and is crushed by Soviet armor: some 2,700 Hungarians killed, 200,000 into exile, Imre Nagy hanged after a secret trial. Remember.
This is one scene of Chapter 5 — Coexistence and Its Crises in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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