On October 23, 1956, university students in Budapest staged a demonstration against Communist rule in Hungary. The march quickly escalated into a full-scale, country-wide uprising. Weeks later, the rebellion was crushed by Soviet forces. In the aftermath of the ill-fated Hungarian Revolution of 1956, approximately 200,000 Hungarians (2% of the population) fled the country. More […]
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