Word: rakoczy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telephone lines between Vienna and Budapest went dead next day, but Radio Rakoczi, identified by Radio Free Europe monitors as a mobile rebel station, became a regular station, gained in strength, and reported the stirring battles of the "Seventh Patriots." Two Russian tanks were set on fire by youths with gas bombs in Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Street. On Izabella Street grenades thrown from windows scattered a squad of marching Russian infantry. A few minutes later tanks and artillery came rolling down the street, shot up the whole neighborhood. In one house the Russians found the 13-year...
...rebels holding out in the ruins of the Royal Palace high on Buda Hill surrendered a highly defensible position. After a moving appeal for help from President Eisenhower the day after election ("If during his presidency he would stand by the oppressed, a blessing shall fall on him"), Radio Rakoczi said its last word: "Soviet tanks are attacking . . . The battle continues with unflagging violence...
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