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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…
German soldiers marching in Buda in 1944.

Horthy’s Attempt to Exit WWII: Missed Opportunity or Inevitable Failure?

On 15 October 1944, Horthy made an unsuccessful attempt to exit the Second World War. The operation failed due to a number of reasons: the resistance of some officers of the Royal Hungarian Army, organisational mistakes and pre-emptive actions by…
East German refugee, with a Hungarian border guard looking on, showing his documents before he is allowed to leave for West Germany through Austria.

The First Crack in the Communist Iron Curtain: The Pan-European Picnic

This Saturday marks the 34th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, when East German refugees, attempting to defect to West Germany, were allowed to enter Austria by the Hungarian authorities. The Picnic is also a symbol of a borderless, free, united…

Russia’s Worldview: Katechon and Atomic Orthodoxy

The rhetoric of spiritual mobilization, of Russia’s responsibility for the fate of the world, and of the ‘burden of the Russian people’ is becoming dominant once again as it was many times before during tragic periods in Russian history. Economic…

Creator of the Liberty Statue of Budapest Born 139 Years Ago Today

Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl completed his magnum opus, the Liberty Statue of Budapest in 1947, in just two years. It was originally a monument dedicated to the ‘liberating’ Soviet forces at the end of World War II. However, elements of the…
The Hungarian king saints on the altar painting of the St Martin's Church in Szepeshely (Spišská Kapitula) in the Upper Lands (Slovakia).

Giving All for the Motherland, Betraying Her Never

27 June is the Day of Hungarian Border Guards. The geographic location of our country and the very fact that it is the eastern bulwark of Western Christianity obliged it in the past and is still predestining it today to…
A man places a rose in front of Kunsthalle Budapest (Műcsarnok), commemorating the reburial of the late Prime Minister Imre Nagy and his fellow martyrs.

Imre Nagy, a Controversial Figure of Modern Hungarian History

Nagy was a highly controversial figure in Hungarian history, whose assessment is still a source of intense debates…He did stand up for the Hungarian Revolution in 1956—for debatable reasons—; but to portray him as a convinced democrat, or a hero…

Challenging American Imperialism

The US became an imperial power in its own right by the end of the nineteenth century, specifically from 1898 to 1901, when it claimed territory or influence over no fewer than five islands outside its territorial boundaries: Cuba, Hawaii,…

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