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MEFESZ
It was established and they drafted their demands -
Beginning of the Hungarian Revolution
Demonstrators at Petőfi-statue, where Sinkovits Imre recited the National Song -
Hungarian Radio
People went to the Radio to make their demands public, but they were refused so as they were sieging the radio an armed uprising happened. -
Socialist coat
the demonstrators cut out the socialist coat of arms from the Hungarian flag as the symbol of the revolution -
A crowd of 200,000 people marched to the Kossuth square
While they were walking they were chanting their demands -
Counter-revolutionaries
Gerő and even Nagy Imre called them counter-revolutionaries and Nagy Imre sent them home and switched the lights off, so the crowd used the Szabad Nép as torches. -
Demolishment of the Stalin statue
A group of the demonstrators demolished the Stalin statue as the symbol of the communist terror -
Soviet troops
Soviet troops occupied Budapest -
Chain fire
Chain fire in front of the Parliament started by the Soviets as an accident -
radio speech of Nagy Imre
he called it as national and democratic movement -
Hungary left the Warsaw Pact
Hungary became neutral -
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Constant street fights
Soviet attack Budapest on 4th of November at 4 a.m