To mark the anniversary of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, I’m publishing in this space an essay from Stephen Sholl, an American academic living in Budapest, and a friend I made this summer: ...

The first shots of the Hungarian revolution were fired 50 years ago on this day, October 23, 1956. An estimated 250,000 people had gathered in Budapest in front of the Parliament, protesting against ...

Hungarians are feuding bitterly amongst themselves as they mark the 56th anniversary on Tuesday of the revolt in which the nation rose up to overthrow Soviet rule in a 1956 revolution. Subscribe to ...

On an October morning 50 years ago, Sandor Boldizsar walked out of his Soviet-controlled factory outside Budapest and joined thousands of fellow Hungarians in protest. “The hope was to see if the ...

When it comes to remembering the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Lorain County’s International City, the crowd of freedom fighters and refugees who participated in putting a crack in the foundation of ...

2006-10-22 04:00:00 PDT Budapest, Hungary-- Seventy-year-old Pacifica resident Les Mohacsy stared at a black-and-white photograph of a barricade built out of cobblestones in Budapest's Moricz Zsigmond ...

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – The Danube cuts through the city—Buda to the left, Pest to the Right, the long gone Austro-Hungarian Empire on either side, stoically represented in the 19th-century Baroque ...

Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF) Marion Smith and former Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Fehér, now a research fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's ...

My father was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of his workplace, the Hungarian National Bank. My grandfather, a realist, feared certain reprisal but still encouraged us to "take part in the ...

Tens of thousands of people marched in Budapest on October 23 in rival political rallies to mark the anniversary of the 1956 uprising against the communist government that was violently put down by ...