Scenes from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956: A revolution against the Stalinist government in 1956 in Hungary. Aerial view of Budapest in 1956. Communist leader Mátyás Rákosi addressing a crowd in a public square. Rakosi not yet challenged by uprising. Hungarian Revolution demonstrators on roads and at government buildings in Budapest. Students and writers assembled in October 1956 in solidarity with the recently successful anti-Stalinist uprising in Poland. The police fire at revolutionaries. Fighting in streets as secret police combat revolutionaries.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Stalinist government in Hungary. Civilians, police and military mingling amiably. Hungarian Communist Leader, Janos Kadar enters a car with an Army General. Civilians walk around a Soviet tank in a market. Hungarian soldiers stand on roads and talk to each other. Animated map shows flow of Soviet Forces surrounding Budapest to put down the insurrection. Soviet tanks firing point blank into buildings. Fires raging. A radio announcer is seen at a center from which multilingual broadcasts are being made about the events in Budapest. A technician in broadcast center. Speaker labeled "Hungarian." Brief view of UN meeting in New York. Revolutionaries fire on Soviets from remnants of destroyed buildings. Damaged Soviet tank. Hungarian National flags fly over abandoned litters in a small park. Dead revolutionary in a coffin being transported for burial in a cemetery. Some snow on the ground. People in various parts of the world express sympathy for the Hungarian insurrectionists. Black wreathes are hung. Youth in West Berlin, Germany, carry banner calling for Freedom for Hungary. Supportive demonstrations in Vietnam, France, and Italy. Black wreathes are placed in Poland.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Pedestrians along a road in Budapest, Hungary. Debris on a field. Soviet vehicles on a street. A resistance fighter dismantles the Communist Red Star on the top of a building near the National Museum, in the Kalvin Square (Budapest, Kálvin tér 12, 1088 Hungary). Derailed trams in front of the Hungarian National Museum. Hungarian civilians look on. Interiors of a damaged building. Civilians gather along a street.
In 1956, crowds of Hungarians walk peaceably in their Capital, Budapest, calling for establishment of their own style of communist rule. A woman waves a Hungarian flag from a window. A communist star is pulled down from atop a building. On October 24, 1956 Hungarian authorities crack down, with police supported by Russian troops from local garrison. Russian soldiers in T-34 tanks seen on city street. View of Russian soldiers leaving the area aboard a T-34 tank. Hungarians battling their police. View of Prime Minister,Imry Nagy, ascending steps of a government building. Narrator states that Nagy declares Hungary neutral in conflict between Soviet Union and the West. Soviet books and documents being burned. The next sequence shows Soviet T-34 tanks entering Hungary in force, on November 4, 1956. One is seen firing from a city street. Picture of Imre Nagy shown as Narrator says his execution was announced on June 17, 1958.
Soviet tanks in Budapest, Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Civilians walk along sidewalks as Soviet T-55 tanks and trucks pass along a road. People look on as Soviet tanks, trucks and armored vehicles advance in a city square. Soviet tanks roll towards the Heroes' Square (Budapest, Hősök tere, 1146 Hungary).
Events during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, against the Soviet controlled government in Hungary. Destroyed tanks and Soviet weapons on roads of Budapest after fighting in October and November 1956. Church bells ring and people pray for Hungarians who have died fighting against Soviet forces. Destroyed railroad tracks, roads and vehicles. People clearing rubble from the streets. People from the countyside give away food for free to the citizens of Budapest. Citizens donating money to families in need.