Hungarian Uprising
Budapest
| Date | 23 October 1956 - Present |
|---|---|
| Location | Budapest |
| Deaths | 3000 |
| Description | A a peaceful revolt by students in Budapest demanding an end to USSR-backed dictatorship. |
| Perpetrators | students |
"The uprising began on 23rd October by a peaceful manifestation of students in Budapest. The students demanded an end to Soviet occupation and the implementation of "true socialism". The police made some arrests and tried to disperse the crowd with tear gas. When the students attempted to free those people who had been arrested, the police opened fire on the crowd.
The following day commissioned officers and soldiers joined the students on the streets of Budapest. Stalin's statue was brought down and the protesters chanted "Russians go home", "Away with Gero" and "Long Live Nagy". The Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party respond to these developments by deciding that Imre Nagy should become head of a new government."[1]
"Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, became increasingly concerned about these developments and on 4th November 1956 he sent the Red Army into Hungary. Soviet tanks immediately captured Hungary's airfields, highway junctions and bridges. Fighting took place all over the country but the Hungarian forces were quickly defeated."[1]
MI6 training
In 1996, journalist Michael Smith published a book where MI6 officers admitted they trained and armed Király’s fighters. The source also admitted the rebels were armed with American and British weapons, stashed throughout Europe. These were likely part of Operation Gladio.The officer told Smith:
We were taking them [fighters] into the mountains and giving them a crash course. I would be told to pick somebody up from a street corner at night in the pouring rain. Graz was our staging point. Then, after we'd trained them — explosives, weapons training — I took them back. We were training the agents for the uprising.[2]
