65: Uprising Pictures

 

(The work of Hungary’s state security agency – Államvédelmi Hatóság or ÁVH – created a climate of fear, and it was much hated. During the revolution some of its members were publicly lynched. Here some leave their headquarters after rebels stormed the building.)

 

(26 October: a rebel flag-bearer triumphantly signals that the state security agency headquarters have been taken and the secret police are ready to come out.)

 

(Col Pal Maleter, 36 and two metres (6ft 6in) tall, defected to the rebels when he was told to take five tanks to fight them, making him a national hero. He was arrested on 3 November by the head of the KGB. He was executed on 16 June 1958.)

(A young rebel takes cover)

 

(The ruins of the Rákóczi street 74 where the fight was hard even after the Soviet troops crushed the revolution on November 4.)

(For many Hungarians, the failure of the uprising meant an end to their life in their homeland. At least 200,000 emigrated.)