To mark the anniversary of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, I’m publishing in this space an essay from Stephen Sholl, an American academic living in Budapest, and a friend I made this summer: ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Opponents of Prime Minister Viktor Orban are using referee whistles to disturb the government's commemorations of Hungary's 1956 revolution. Opposition politicians say Orban's ...
I’m being asked for a sense of historical perspective to capture the gravity of what Vladimir Putin and his Russian troops are doing right now in the Ukraine. Is this unprecedented? Is there a ...
When it comes to remembering the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Lorain County’s International City, the crowd of freedom fighters and refugees who participated in putting a crack in the foundation of ...
President Bush is marking the 50th anniversary of Hungary's 1956 uprising against Soviet rule with a visit to the former Soviet satellite. He met with European Union leaders in Vienna on Wednesday, ...
Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF) Marion Smith and former Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Fehér, now a research fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary's main political parties have commemorated the brief anti-Soviet revolution of 1956 while focusing on next year's parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Viktor Orban on ...
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most seminal episodes in the postwar history of Eastern Europe—the bloody suppression of the Hungarian Revolution by Soviet tanks. We are ...
Nobody should be surprised at the U.N.’s failure to act decisively in the face of Russian aggression (“When Russia Loses the U.N. . . .,” Review & Outlook, April 8). On Nov. 4, 1956, after the Russian ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Sandor Kopacsi, one of the leaders of the failed Hungarian revolt against Soviet domination in 1956, has died. Kopacsi died March 2 in Toronto during a visit to his daughter, Judit ...
Hungarians are feuding bitterly amongst themselves as they mark the 56th anniversary on Tuesday of the revolt in which the nation rose up to overthrow Soviet rule in a 1956 revolution. With ...
A man, 34 years old, is working on an official document, a poster promoting the National Savings Bank’s Peace Bond Drive, in a graphic house in Budapest. This is 1954 and Hungary is under a ...