![]() Soviet occupation Īt the end of the Second World War (1939–1945), the Kingdom of Hungary was in the geopolitical sphere of influence of the USSR. On 10 February 1947, a Paris peace treaty confirmed the military defeat of Nazi Hungary and stipulated the USSR's right to a military occupation of Hungary. įearful of the Red Army's occupation of the Kingdom of Hungary, the royal Hungarian government unsuccessfully sought an armistice with the Allies, to which betrayal of the Axis, the Nazis launched Operation Margarethe (12 March 1944) to establish the Nazi Government of National Unity of Hungary despite those politico-military efforts, the Red Army defeated the German and the Hungarian Nazis in late 1944. ![]() In the event, by 1944, the Red Army were en route to the Kingdom of Hungary, after first having repelled the royal Hungarian army and the armies of the other Axis Powers from the territory of the USSR. In 1941, the Hungarian military participated in the invasion of Yugoslavia (6 April 1941) and in Operation Barbarossa (22 June 1941) the invasion of the USSR. īackground Second World War ĭuring the Second World War (1939–1945), the Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) was a member of the Axis powers – in alliance with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Kingdom of Romania, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. By the end of October the intense fighting had subsided.Īlthough initially willing to negotiate the withdrawal of the Soviet Army from Hungary, the USSR repressed the Hungarian Revolution on 4 November 1956, and fought the Hungarian revolutionaries until 10 November repression of the Hungarian Uprising killed 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet Army soldiers, and compelled 200,000 Hungarians to seek political refuge abroad. The new government of Imre Nagy disbanded the ÁVH, declared the Hungarian withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact, and pledged to re-establish free elections. To realize their political, economic, and social demands, the local soviets (councils of workers) assumed control of municipal government from the Hungarian Working People's Party ( Magyar Dolgozók Pártja). Ĭonsequently, Hungarians organized into revolutionary militias to fight against the ÁVH local Hungarian communist leaders and ÁVH policemen were captured and summarily killed or lynched and anti-communist political prisoners were released and armed. When the student protestors outside the radio building demanded the release of their delegation of students, policemen from the ÁVH ( Államvédelmi Hatóság) state protection authority shot and killed several protestors. A delegation of students entered the building of Hungarian Radio to broadcast their sixteen demands for political and economic reforms to the civil society of Hungary, but they were instead detained by security guards. The Hungarian Revolution began on 23 October 1956 in Budapest when university students appealed to the civil populace to join them at the Hungarian Parliament Building to protest against the USSR's geopolitical domination of Hungary with the Stalinist government of Mátyás Rákosi. ![]() The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 10 November 1956 Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was a countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the Soviet Union (USSR).
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