October 1956

The Hungarian uprising was the main news story in October 1956. I was 10 years old. I remember news films of Soviet tanks on the streets of Budapest and Hungarians attacking the tanks with gasoline bombs. Citizens pulled down statues of Stalin. In one news film, young Hungarians lit gasoline bombs and threw the bottles onto Soviet tanks on the other side of a wooden fence. Erika Szeles’ photographs were on TV news and in newspapers. Then the Soviets came back, with artillery and more tanks than Hungarians could destroy with gasoline-filled bottles.

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