The Hungarian leader, who had been in control since 1949, was Mátyás Rákosi, a hard-line communist fully under the control of Moscow. Rákosi’s secret police (the AVH) created a climate of ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Tens of thousands rallied in Budapest against Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday, waving the national flag as the leader of the surging ... and would uncover foreign funding ...

Soviet troops eventually reentered Budapest and crushed the uprising. But despite their eventual defeat, the Hungarian rebels of 1956 inflicted what would come to be known as "the first tear" in ...

The Hungarian Revolution was the greatest challenge for the Soviet hegemony and a symbol of the Soviet Socialist model’s bankruptcy. In the entire crisis history of the Soviet system before and after ...