Beginning Middle End
HUNGARIANS ARE UNHAPPY UNDER KHRUSHCHEV GIVES SECRET UPRISING IS CRUSHED BY
MATYAS RAKOSI SPEECH RED ARMY
Matyas Rakosi = Repressive Stalinist INTEREST IN HUNGARY Nov 4, 1956 - Soviet tanks invaded
regime alienated people
Budapest to crush the Uprising
This leads to demonstrations in
Hungarians had no freedom of speech.
Budapest, Oct 23 1956 Fierce Fighting - Over 2500
Rakosi secret police (the AVH) created a
hungarians killed, 200,000 fled,
Their demands - Free Elections, Free Nagy was captured and executed.
climate of fear, arresting anyone who speech and soviet troop withdrawal.
spoke out or opposed communist rule.
Brutal suppression reaffirm Soviet
Even something as simple as listening to Protests - Escalated; Stalin’s statue was control over Eastern Europe
Western music could lead to arrest. pulled down symbolising rejection of exposed limits of destalinist.
Soviet control, violence erupted when
Thousands of Soviet troops and officials police fired on demonstrators Western Powers condemn not
were stationed in Hungary, which the intervene.
Hungarian people were forced to pay for, Temp leader (Imre Nagy) made Soviet
creating poverty troops withdraw temporarily then Nagy This Strengthened Soviet
appealed to UN dominance but revealed tensions in
KHRUSHCHEV SPEECH SECRET Eastern Europe.
SOVIET ARMY INVADES
HUNGARIANS ARE UNHAPPY UNDER KHRUSHCHEV GIVES SECRET UPRISING IS CRUSHED BY
MATYAS RAKOSI SPEECH RED ARMY
Matyas Rakosi = Repressive Stalinist INTEREST IN HUNGARY Nov 4, 1956 - Soviet tanks invaded
regime alienated people
Budapest to crush the Uprising
This leads to demonstrations in
Hungarians had no freedom of speech.
Budapest, Oct 23 1956 Fierce Fighting - Over 2500
Rakosi secret police (the AVH) created a
hungarians killed, 200,000 fled,
Their demands - Free Elections, Free Nagy was captured and executed.
climate of fear, arresting anyone who speech and soviet troop withdrawal.
spoke out or opposed communist rule.
Brutal suppression reaffirm Soviet
Even something as simple as listening to Protests - Escalated; Stalin’s statue was control over Eastern Europe
Western music could lead to arrest. pulled down symbolising rejection of exposed limits of destalinist.
Soviet control, violence erupted when
Thousands of Soviet troops and officials police fired on demonstrators Western Powers condemn not
were stationed in Hungary, which the intervene.
Hungarian people were forced to pay for, Temp leader (Imre Nagy) made Soviet
creating poverty troops withdraw temporarily then Nagy This Strengthened Soviet
appealed to UN dominance but revealed tensions in
KHRUSHCHEV SPEECH SECRET Eastern Europe.
SOVIET ARMY INVADES
