The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Hungarian resistance fighters aim guns towards Soviet positions in Budapest, Hungary. Soviet soldiers standing near a loudspeaker. Exteriors of a building. Wreckage of vehicles in the city.
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.
Hungarian civilians assemble to demand freedom from the Stalinist government in Hungary. Thousands of civilians crowd a square in Budapest to demonstrate against the Stalinist government. Several carry Hungarian national flags. A number of banners are seen. One large banner is carried by students and faculty of Lorand University. Woman waves Hungarian flag from an office building window. Hungarian revolutionaries distribute newspapers from the back of an open truck. Many civilians crowd together and ride on two tanks moving rapidly along a street. Hungarian soldiers ride in a truck and carry the National flag. A sign displayed on the street reads: Russians, go home!
Hungarian civilians fight for freedom against the Stalinist government during a revolt in Budapest, Hungary. Hungarian rebels fire at Russian tanks from houses. Civilians pull down Russian star from a building. Russian books and flags burnt by civilians. Men run with the wounded. Corpses and wrecked jeep on roads. Firemen try to extinguish fire on a house.
Hungarian civilians fight for freedom against the Stalinist government during revolt in Budapest, Hungary. Hungarian communists firing on freedom fighters in front of the Communist Party headquarters. Men carry wounded on litter. Russian soldiers fire at them. The men run with the wounded under fire. Wounded Hungarian rebels in hospitals. Burial service of those died in the revolt. People lay wreath during ceremony. An old woman weeps during the ceremony.
Hungarian civilians fight for freedom against the Stalinist government during the revolt in Budapest, Hungary, known as the Hungarian Uprising or Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Rubble on streets and badly damaged buildings during the revolt. Huge building with all glasses broken during revolt. A wrecked artillery gun on road. Shops destroyed and looted. Dead bodies of a number of soldiers and rebels lay on roads.