Refugee crises · BATTLE SITE ·
Hungarian Revolution (1956)
On the Refugee crises map as “Budapest, November 1956”
4 Nov 1956 — Soviet tanks return to Budapest to crush the revolution; about 2,500 Hungarians are killed in the fighting and the repression that follows. Some 200,000 people, about one Hungarian in fifty, leave before the border is sealed again.
- When
- Type
- Battle site
- Chapter
- Expellee integration in West Germany (chapter 6 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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- WW2 · Cold War · Stalin’s Soviet Union
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