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13 unusual facts about Hungarian revolution of 1956


Bandy World Championship 1957

Norway declined to take part due to the Soviet invasion of Hungary the year before.

Castles and Cottages

The script's approval by the DEFA Commission was delayed by the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolt at October 1956.

Diane Ablonczy

She married Tom Ablonczy, a well site engineer and refugee of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.

Eastern Catholic victims of Soviet persecutions

The slow pace of de-Stalinisation and the Soviet crack-down of the Hungarian Revolution did not produce results, aside from modest improvements in Poland and Yugoslavia after 1956.

Flag of Hungary

During the anti-Soviet uprising in 1956, revolutionaries cut out the Stalinist emblem and used the resulting tricolour with a hole in the middle as the symbol of the revolution.

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Klári Tolnay

After World War II ended in 1945, Ákos Ráthonyi left Hungary, with their daughter following after the 1956 revolution.

Les Hall

In addition to working as a session and touring musician, he composed the score for the Hungarian documentary Freedom's Fury, about the country's Olympic water polo team during the Revolution of 1956, which was narrated by Mark Spitz and executive produced by Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Liu.

Maria Remenyi

She migrated to the United States in 1956 when her family escaped from the Hungarian revolt.

Robert Kroon

Kroon covered the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising.

Sándor J. Kovács

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Kovács, with his parents and sister, fled Hungary at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Valentin Alekseyev

Hungary-56: The Breach in the Chain "Венгрия-56. Прорыв цепи", Moscow, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 1996.

Zsuzsanna Budapest

In 1956, when the Hungarian Revolution broke out, she left Hungary as a political refugee.


322d Airlift Division

It also provided airlift support in the following crises: the nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; the 1958 Lebanon crisis; support for UN forces in the Congo in 1960–1961; the invasion of India by Communist Chinese forces in 1962–1963; airlift of peacekeeping forces to Cyprus in 1964; and the Middle East crisis of 1967.

György Szabados

His 1983 record Adyton, for instance, is partially a reference to Hungarian poet Endre Ady, whereas his 1989 album A szarvassá vált fiak (Sons that became deer) was inspired by the Hungarian revolution of 1956.

Mihály Iglói

The team's mentality and spirit was badly shaken as the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was bloodily crushed by the Soviet military just weeks before the Melbourne Olympics.