Word: szanto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peter Szanto...
Somehow this seemed a perfectly natural background for Peter Szanto. Short, powerfully built, with a freckled face and a mop of disarrayed red hair, Peter was a product of Budapest's war-battered slums. He was one of those people, men, women, even children, who came up from nowhere to carry on the freedom fight after many like Janos Feher had died, and some like Ferenc Kocsis had left...
Three days later Peter Szanto, full-fledged Freedom Fighter, fought in the biggest tank battle of the revolution. When word reached the barracks that Russian tanks were coming, the colonel ordered complete quiet. The tanks came close to the barracks wall, but no one stirred. Some infantry appeared and shot up the building, but the Freedom Fighters did not return the fire. Finally there were 20 tanks, some 75 infantrymen, a truck, and an armored car outside the barracks. "Colonel Maleter came and looked down," recalls Peter Szanto. "He picked up a small nitroglycerin bottle and threw...
...barracks was skyhigh. When citizens called up to report the presence of Russian tanks or the whereabouts of the AVH, the Freedom Fighters forayed out to do battle. A week later the Soviet army returned in strength and tried to blast the Freedom Fighters out of Kilian barracks. Peter Szanto was one of the last to leave. He came out through a hole in the back wall after a delegation of local people had pleaded with the Fighters to stop the battle because the neighborhood was in ruins. When he reached home, Peter learned that the AVH had been around...