In Budapest. on October 23. 1956. a peaceful student demonstration in support of nationalist demands and greater civil liberties ignited into a fullscale revolution when Hungarian security police fired on the demonstrators. For more than a week. Hungarian freedom fighters battled Soviet tanks and troops. the rebellion spread to the countryside. and. on October 30. the withdrawal of Soviet units from Budapest indicated success for the freedom fighters and their leader. Imre Nagy. Success was temporary however. Soviet tanks reentered Budapest on November 2. Nagys reforms were abolished and he had to seek asylum in the Yugoslav Embassy. He was eventually arrested and executed in June 1958. On this anniversary it is proper that we remember and honor the 200.000 Hungarians who were forced to flee their homelands.
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