Hungarian Uprising: Budapest's Cataclysmic Twelve Days, 1956 by Louis Archard

Author:Louis Archard [Archard, Louis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Communism; Post-Communism & Socialism, Political Science, Political Ideologies
ISBN: 9781526708045
Google: mAXMDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 50673226
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2018-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

A T-34 tank of the Hungarian Army. Although the majority of the rank and file were in favour of the uprising, its senior officers were pro-Soviet. (Fortepan: Pesti Srác 2)

At midday Imre Nagy addressed the nation live on radio but again failed to correctly judge the mood of his audience. Appealing for calm, he offered an amnesty to all those who would stop fighting and return home. Nagy, despite his good intentions, was still looking to resolve the problems that he had identified back in 1953 when he had first been appointed prime minister and had not yet realized that the situation he was facing in October 1956 was dramatically different. As Victor Sebestyen points out, although it was often claimed that Nagy was being held prisoner by Gerő and the AVH, he was rather ‘a prisoner of his own mind’. Needless to say, the armed freedom fighters ignored his offered amnesty.

A notice in Russian headed: ‘Soviet Soldiers!’ It goes on to appeal to the Soviet troops not to shoot. (Fortepan: Fortepan)

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