In the autumn of 1956, Hungarian people made world history when they rose up against tyranny. They took up the fight against the foreign occupiers for a free and independent Hungary. By then, life had become unbearable in this part of Europe. The communist utopia had promised a terrestrial paradise — a society without exploitation, built on equality — but what it created was nothing more than a brutal tyranny. Soviet rule, enforced by its local henchmen, operated as a totalitarian dictatorship, and the entire country rose up against it. Oppression had become intolerable, terror unbearable, and the lack of freedom suffocating. All this inflamed the Hungarians’ anti-Soviet sentiments and their longing for independence. Hopelessness and disappointment had become palpable.
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