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Revolution of 1956

The Spirit of ’56

‘This 4th of July, my own country’s independence day, Americans can look with solidarity to the struggles of Hungary and of all democracies against the many faces of tyranny in these last few centuries.’…
Gerard ter Borch, The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster (1648). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Concept of Nation According to Scruton and the Central European Perspective

In Scruton’s philosophy…the social practice of legislation and jurisdiction could not be realized outside the national framework, because—regardless to their origins—the interpretation and the enforcement of the set of legal rules and moral duties, even human rights, are bound to…
A burnt-out Soviet armoured combat vehicle in Budapest in November 1956.

The Fate of the Uprising: 1956 between November and May

The events of the 1956 Revolution are quite well-known, at least in Hungary, as far as the beginning of it and the period of its brief triumph are concerned. What is less known is that the revolution was not fully…
Revolutionaries near two destroyed tanks in Budapest in November 1956.

4 November: The Day the Revolution Was Crushed

On 4 November 1956, the fate of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was sealed as Soviet troops entered the country to crush the uprising….
A solidarity march on 5 November 1956 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The banner reads ‘Help Hungary’.

A Fatal Case of Empathy — Hungary and the UN, 1956–1963

When the Soviet intervention against the Hungarian Revolution was placed on the agenda of the UN Security Council, the Soviets immediately vetoed it: their argument was that it was no more than a ‘reactionary uprising’ supported by the US. The…
Daniel Freund

Daniel Freund, the Ignoramus, and the EU Funds Due to Hungary

German Green MEP Daniel Freund thought that 23 October was the right time to publish the report on Hungary by the EP’s so-called Supervisory Body. He is proud to have been involved in its preparation, which is a shared pleasure…
President Katalin Novák surrounded by Hungarian Australian youth wearing folk costumes at the Hungarian Centre in Melbourne, Australia on 22 October 2023.

President Novák Attends 1956 Celebration, Meets with Hungarian Community in Melbourne During Visit to Australia

Katalin Novák stressed that one of the purposes of her visit to Australia was to keep the motherland’s connection with the Hungarian diaspora alive, and as part of the effort, she decided to celebrate the anniversary of the 1956 revolution…

Budapest Mayor Addresses Demonstration on 23 October

‘Living in a republic means striving to treat each other well,’ the mayor said, adding this was the kind of homeland the heroes of 1956 had wanted. He said the symbol of the revolution, the Hungarian flag with a hole,…

Viktor Orbán: Hungary Unique in Trying to Hold Back Europe From ‘Even Greater War’

Orbán told his audience in Veszprém that Hungary was the ‘first and only’ country trying to ‘hold back the European people from willingly marching into an even greater war’. Referring to the ‘chivalry of the Hungarian people’, he said that…

‘I decided to become a priest as an act of defiance’ — An Interview with Fr Iván Csete, the Only Hungarian Priest in New York State

‘I thought, there is communism at home, half of the world is godless, they don’t know God or don’t consider Him important, and nobody wants to be a priest anymore… Thus, out of some kind of Hungarian defiance, I decided…

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