Cold War · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Hungarian Revolution (1956)
On the Cold War map as “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.
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- Hungary 1956 and the Berlin Wall (chapter 5 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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- WW2 · Refugee crises · Stalin’s Soviet Union
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