"Pole and Hungarian brothers be" and "Pole and Hungarian, two good friends" are English translations of a proverbial saying about the traditional brotherhood and camaraderie between Poles and Hungaria
Poles and Hungarians, by Johann Wilhelm Baur (Czartoryski Museum, Kraków)
Polish-Hungarian friendship monument in Eger, Hungary, with the saying inscribed on its steps
Polish Cavalryman and Hungarian Ladies, by Georg Haufnagel (Czartoryski Museum, Kraków)
Battle of Piski in which Hungarians and Poles defeated the Austrians during the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848–1849
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the policies caused by the
Pole and Hungarian brothers be
…some even defected to join their Polish brothers. Hungarian soldiers assisted in the evacuation of civilian families during the Uprising. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Poles demonstrated their support for the Hungarian insurgents by donating blood. The blood banks had to work 24 hours a day because of how many people…
From top to bottom, left to right: The rebels' flag · Speaker addresses to a crowd from an abandoned Soviet tank · Caricature of Mátyás Rákosi with suitcases going to the Soviet border · Search for Stalinist era mass graves and underground party bunkers · Hungarian Patriot, Time Man of the Year · Severed Stalin's head of a toppled monument · Young Hungarian rebel · Civilians flee from Soviet bombing · Ruins in Budapest after the Soviet bombings
Mátyás Rákosi addresses an audience in Budapest, 1948.
In the Eastern bloc, Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy (centre) proved too progressive a Communist in his government's pursuit of the Hungarian road to Socialism, taking it too far out of the Soviet Union's orbit (October 1956).
In Budapest, anti-communists and nationalists place a Hungarian national flag atop a demolished statue of Joseph Stalin.