Hungary Commemorates 60th Anniversary of Revolution 1956-2016
The 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution is being commemorated.
On 23 October 1956 the fight for freedom from the Soviets began in Budapest and soon spread throughout Hungary. For a brief period Hungarian Freedom Fighters fought the Soviet forces to a standstill. The free government begged for foreign aid to prevent the inevitable. Help from the West, though promised, never came
The massive Soviet counterattack came on 5 November which
brutally smashed the uprising.
The Hungarian UN Mission/Consulate in New York is flying the national flag as well as
the Freedom Flag with the center torn out. Revolutionaries ripped out communist symbols
from flags in 1956 leaving this Flag with the Hole as a poignant reminder of the ill-fated
uprising.
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