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In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could have imagined this would be the last feudal Diet in Hungarian history. That ...

The 50th anniversary of the start of the Hungarian Uprising takes place in just under two weeks, on 23 October. The crisis that followed the crushing of the uprising was in many ways the first big ...

Longtime Washington Heights resident Susan Kalev, 80, who is still working as a social worker, shares her family’s story of survival. Susan Kalev, 80, lives in a two-bedroom apartment in Washington ...

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 ...

TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - It was an emotional anniversary Sunday as several Toledoans gathered for a wreath laying ceremony to remember those killed in the revolt against Hungary's communist party 60 years ...

One of the factors that gave the Hungarian revolution its first success was the low morale of the hated AVH, the state security police. All the Kremlin talk of coexistence, and Russia’s downgrading of ...

Deputy Prime Minister Tanczos Barna declared on Thursday evening, for AGERPRES, at the ceremony in Miercurea Ciuc commemorating the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, that the ideal of freedom is a ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 10 October 2006 The 50th anniversary ...