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).
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.
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.
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.
Hungarian civilians fight for freedom against the Stalinist government during Hungarian Revolution (or Hungarian Uprising) of 1956 in Budapest, Hungary. Tanks with soldiers move on streets of Budapest. Wrecked Russian trucks and tanks. Rubble on roads and buildings damaged by the revolt. Civilians during the revolt. Damaged Russian equipment on streets.
Crowds in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution. Vehicles on bridge over the Danube River. A huge gathering with flags and banners. Speakers address the crowd. Crowd sings national anthem and gathers at base of the Bem József Memorial (Bem tér, Budapest 1027 Hungary). Street cars. Demonstrators march in the streets waving flags.