Many have tried to compare Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland. A much better comparison is Soviet action during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when, in response to the ...

Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF) Marion Smith and former Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Fehér, now a research fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's ...

In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could have imagined this would be the last feudal Diet in Hungarian history. That ...

When it comes to remembering the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Lorain County’s International City, the crowd of freedom fighters and refugees who participated in putting a crack in the foundation of ...

To mark the anniversary of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, I’m publishing in this space an essay from Stephen Sholl, an American academic living in Budapest, and a friend I made this summer: ...

The Cranwell International Center was filled with national pride and revolutionary spirit yesterday night as the Hungarian Student Association celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian ...

Artist Judith Karr Eisinger is a second generation Holocaust survivor and author of the book, “Escape: A Long Walk To Freedom”. When I interviewed Judith, she recalled her family’s escape from Hungary ...

States, cities and civic organizations are lining up to aid Afghan refugees. Aspen took on that responsibility for Hungarians in 1957. During the Hungarian Revolution 200,000 refugees fled their ...

Deputy Prime Minister Tanczos Barna declared on Thursday evening, for AGERPRES, at the ceremony in Miercurea Ciuc commemorating the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, that the ideal of freedom is a ...

In the critical days of the Hungarian revolution last November, the hospitals of Budapest were the scenes of many grim dramas. When the hated AVH police came out of hiding and joined the Soviet tanks ...

Joseph S. Miko, a former cameraman whose extensive footage of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was smuggled out of Budapest and is considered a significant piece of the documentary record of the historic ...

[JURIST] Bela Biszku, a high-ranking Communist official convicted of war crimes committed during the aftermath of the Hungarian revolution [BBC backgrounder], died on Thursday at the age of 94. When ...