Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolt of October 23 broke out spontaneously all over the country, Laszlo explained, and was carried on "without any class distinctions." The aims of the uprising, he claimed, were freedom and independence for Hungary, free elections, and the "purging" of the Russians from the country...
...this year, Laszlo continued, his University as well as others throughout the country had presented grievances to the government. But the Universities' demands became secondary when the revolt broke into the open, he said...
...universities start the revolt," he asked, "when students have been told for the last ten years that Communism is good and that in it lies the future?" His answer was, "We were thinking beings: we could not accept Communist domination over our country...
...native of Budapest, Laszlo was at-tending the University of Sopron, in a town on the Austrian border, when the revolt broke out, Oct. 20. He said his companinons had sent him to America to seek aid for the rebels...
...border from Austria. But planes bringing supplies from Belgium and Switzerland were turned back from Budapest airport by the Russians. Among the wounded being tenderly treated in the hospitals were many young Russian soldiers. They had been variously told by their commanding officers that they were putting down a revolt inspired by fascists, by Stalinists, and by Western imperialists...