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FM: Nobody came to help Hungary in 1956
“We Hungarians wanted to belong to the free world, but that world left us high and dry,” Péter Szijjártó said on Facebook on Saturday.
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Gulyás: 1956 anti-Soviet uprising marked by Hungarian communities around the world
“Lights of commemoration will certainly be lit at the Etoile in Paris, in North and South America, in Europe, as well as in Australia where Hungarian communities come together to...
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Novák: The Hungarian revolution had “moved the entire world”
Hungary’s anti-Soviet uprising of 1956 was a European cause and a “fatal wound to the West’s illusions about communism”.
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Hungary marks 1956 anniversary
Hungary’s national flag was hoisted and then lowered to half-mast with military honours in front of Parliament on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of November 4, 1956.
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Hungarians mark 1956 uprising
The national flag was hoisted with military honors in a ceremony in front of Parliament at 9 am this morning.
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Only two state events will be held this year to commemorate Hungary’s 1956 uprising
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, only two state events will be held this year to commemorate Hungary’s 1956 uprising against Soviet rule.
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Wir erinnern uns an den 4. November 1956: Ein dunkler Tag in der Geschichte Ungarns
Sowjetische Panzer haben zwar die Revolution von 1956 auf den Straßen Ungarns niedergeschlagen, aber ihr Geist lebte im Herzen des Volkes weiter.
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Remembering November 4, 1956: a dark day in Hungary’s history
Soviet tanks might have crushed the 1956 Revolution on the streets of Hungary, but its spirit lived on in the hearts of the people.
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Hungarian flag lowered to half-mast to commemorate Soviet forces crushing 1956 uprising
November 4 was declared a national day of mourning in Hungary in 2013.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s commemoration speech on the 63rd anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight
23 October 2019, Budapest
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The apparatchiks are back, and they’ve joined forces with the far-right
While Hungarians remembered on October 23rd the martyrs of the 1956 Revolution – the everyday men and women, boys and girls who took up arms and made a heroic stand against Soviet military might on the streets of Budapest – the direct descendants of the Communist Party cadre that helped break the revolution were busy whitewashing their grandparents and – just for good measure – allying themselves with Hungary’s anti-Semitic, far-right in a shameful maneuver for political power.
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PM Orbán: Hungary and Europe must stay true to themselves
During the state commemoration of Hungary's anti-Soviet uprising of 1956, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said neither Europe nor Hungary could survive if they turned against themselves and went against everything “keeping them alive”.
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PM Orbán: ‘The Hungarian miracle didn’t come cheap. We demanded an independent Hungary in a Europe of nations’
In his speech honoring the martyrs of Hungary’s 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that he has no doubt that the youth of today’s Pest would stand strong just as their grandparents did in 1956. After all, the PM said, “a homeland can only exist as long as the patriots outnumber those that align with foreign powers.”