Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Soviet invasion of Hungary (1956)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Budapest, 1956”
4 Nov 1956 — Eight months after the Secret Speech, Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian revolution that the speech had helped to inspire; about 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet soldiers died. De-Stalinisation stopped at the bloc’s borders.
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- Death of Stalin and de-Stalinisation (chapter 12 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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- WW2 · Cold War · Refugee crises
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