revolution

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  • MEFESZ

    It was established and they drafted their demands
  • Beginning of the Hungarian Revolution

    Beginning of the Hungarian Revolution

    Demonstrators at Petőfi-statue, where Sinkovits Imre recited the National Song
  • Hungarian Radio

    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

    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

    A crowd of 200,000 people marched to the Kossuth square

    While they were walking they were chanting their demands
  • Counter-revolutionaries

    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

    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

    Soviet troops occupied Budapest
  • Chain fire

    Chain fire

    Chain fire in front of the Parliament started by the Soviets as an accident
  • radio speech of Nagy Imre

    radio speech of Nagy Imre

    he called it as national and democratic movement
  • Hungary left the Warsaw Pact

    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