Sándor Rónai
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Sándor Rónai was a Hungarian communist political figure. He served as Chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council between 1950 and 1952 and as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary from 1952
Budapest Parliament conference hall
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
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.