Panoramic views and monuments of Budapest, Hungary. The Liberty Statue (Szabadság-szobor, 1118 Budapest, Gellérthegy) on the Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. Rising sun in the background. Sun rays falling on Danube River. Industrial smoke pollution being emitted from stacks. Workers arrive at factory.
U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
Panoramic views and monuments of Budapest, Hungary during Soviet occupation. Budapest Statue overlooking the city. Szechenyi Chain Bridge (Budapest, Széchenyi Lánchíd, 1051 Hungary) over the Danube River. Various buildings in the city. Traffic along a street. Millennium monument of Budapest (Budapest, Hősök tere, 1146 Hungary). Various statues including Budapest War Statue, St Stephen Statue at Heroes' Square or Hősök tere. Parliament Building of Budapest (Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 1-3, 1055 Hungary). The II. Rakoczi Ferenc equestrian statue (II. Rakoczi Ferenc equestrian statue, Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 11, 1055 Hungary) in front of the Hungarian Parliament building.
Conditions in Budapest, Hungary during Soviet occupation. Women and Catholic nuns arrive at a church. Nuns (belonging to the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul) accompany a girl. Vendors sell newspapers along a street. A Soviet soldier buys a newspaper from a vendor. A man reads a Magyar Nap newspaper (“Hungarian Day” political daily). Hungarian friar with tonsure reads a newspaper. Civilians and a person on horse-drawn carriage read newspapers.
Conditions in Budapest, Hungary during Soviet occupation. Exteriors of Budapest Opera House (Magyar Állami Operaház Budapest, Andrássy út 22, 1061 Hungary). Statue of Franz Liszt outside the building. Sign reads 'Square SZTALIN'. Hungarian women around children in prams. Molotov Street in Budapest. A small bomber sits on top of a Soviet pillar monument near the Danube River. Two young girls sitting at a pillar monument in Budapest.
Conditions in Budapest, Hungary during Soviet occupation. Workers build new railroad lines. A building under construction. Workers roll carts on top of a building. Construction worker climbs a ladder. The dome of the St. Stephen’s Basilica (Budapest, Szent István tér 1, 1051 Hungary). Crane in operation during construction of a bridge (likely the Margaret Bridge) over the Danube River. Traffic passes along Szechenyi Chain Bridge (Budapest, Széchenyi Lánchíd, 1051 Hungary) over Danube.