The Ancestral Ring of Hope by S. E. O'Connor

Author:S. E. O'Connor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: S. E. O'Connor

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Throughout the city, people were retaliating against the Russians, caught up in the killing frenzy, the momentum accelerating despite repeated broadcasts by the government that the Soviets were successfully annihilating the revolutionaries. Just two days after the Bem Square demonstration, another attack on civilians occurred in front of Parliament House, slaughtering seventy-five people in cold blood, and leaving hundreds wounded, many of whom were women and children. News of this spread rapidly, fuelling the people’s desperation to strike back. Citizens armed themselves, blocking access to streets with burnt out vehicles, forcing tanks to double back or cross into the smaller streets where the rebels lay in ambush. The Russians were not perceived as ordinary people with families and loved ones, but as the enemy that had to be destroyed. Fighting resumed at dawn each day as soon as the Soviet tanks began their patrols. The government persisted with broadcasts, claiming that the Soviets were crushing the rebel forces—yet pockets of the city were still controlled by the citizens. Rumours that the Hungarian Army refused to take part in the fight emboldened the rebels. Ordinary Hungarians, generally passive and compliant, grasped the opportunity to drive the tyrant out of their country. A sense of freedom was in the air. Everyone on the streets of Budapest could taste it.

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