Hungarian Uprising (oct 23, 1956 – nov 4, 1956)

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• Rakosi initial leader.
• 23rd October to 4th November
• Thousands killed and wounded and nearly 250,000 fled.
• Opposition to Soviet dominance in Hungary.
• Began by university students who appealed to the public to join them at parliament building.
• AVH (Hungarian secret police) shot and killed several student protestors.
• Hungarians organised into revolutionary militias to resist AVH.
• Hungarian communist and AVH lynched and killed.
• Soviets agree for Imre Nagy to be brought to power – he disbands AVH, left the Warsaw Pact, and promised free elections as well as farmers being allowed private ownership of their land.
• Red Army invasion and capture.
• Nagy death by hanging, Kadar becomes Prime Minister
• President Eisenhower of the USA said, “I feel with the Hungarian people.”

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