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...main boulevard of Budapest for close to a decade. That act became the symbol of the 1956 uprising, a quasi spontaneous revolt against Soviet occupation (the Red Army had liberated Hungary from the Nazis in 1945, then refused to go home) and against the dictatorial rule of the Hungarian Communist Party led by Matyas Rakosi...
...hope of a more democratic, independent Hungary--"socialism with a human face," as the leaders of the Prague spring of 1968 were to proclaim. But in Budapest as later in Prague, that hope ended in disaster. On November 4, a huge fleet of Soviet tanks entered the Hungarian capital and over the next few days destroyed large portions of it. Imre Nagy and several members of his cabinet were tried for treason and eventually executed. Thousands more were imprisoned or killed during those years. Thousands fled the country, leaving behind split families, broken romances, interrupted friendships...
...anniversary of the Hungarian uprising were of interest only to today's or yesterday's Hungarians, however, there would be no point in my writing this piece. The larger interest of October 1956 is that it throws into relief some of today's political conflicts, especially conflicts over national identity, not only in Hungary but by extension in any country where the past is a matter of negotiation. Which means, of course, every country...
...dominated Hungary, 1956 was a taboo subject--or if discussed at all, it had to be referred to as a "counterrevolution," more often than not preceded by the adjective "fascist." Then, after Communist Party boss Janos Kadar retired in 1988 (by then, the Party had changed its name to "Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party"), things changed: A government functionary announced that "new research in the archives" showed 1956 had been a popular uprising, not a counterrevolution. In June 1989, months before the official end of communism in Eastern Europe, Imre Nagy was given a state funeral in Budapest...
DIED. PAUL ERDOS, 83, quirky Hungarian-American mathematician with more than 1,500 papers to his name; of a heart attack while living homeless, by choice; in Warsaw...