Dezső Szilágyi — Budapest, October 9, 1956 Budapest, Hungary — October 9, 1956 We are live today from Budapest. It has been three days since an enormous crowd gathered for the reburial of László Rajk. People are still talking about it. Not loudly. Dezső Szilágyi is walking home when he hears two men behind himContinue reading “70th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Budapest Is No Longer Quiet”
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70th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution for Freedom: What Happened?
Budapest, Hungary — October 1, 1956 We are reporting live from Budapest, Hungary. It is Monday morning, October 1, 1956. At six o’clock this morning, Ica Szilágyi leaves her apartment carrying an empty shopping bag. She is hoping to buy meat. Her husband Dezső told her not to bother. “Get bread before that’s gone too.”Continue reading “70th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution for Freedom: What Happened?”
