Ideas: Hungarian Revolution 50th Anniversary

There's a flag with a hole in it on display in the window of the Hungarian Heritage Museum in downtown Cleveland. Fifty years ago this month in Budapest, demonstrators took scissors to their national emblem and cut out the Soviet hammer and sickle that had appeared on the flag, right after World War II. The museum has just opened an exhibit recalling the dramatic events of October 1956, when Hungarians tried to shake-off the shackles of Soviet domination. And while that revolution would soon be crushed by Russian tanks, the flame of freedom was never snuffed out. ideastream's David C. Barnett spoke with two Northeast Ohioans who marched with those protestors. Their stories give a personal insight into the reasons behind the revolution.

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[MrPolyakgyuri]

These are the tanks that fired a round right into my mother. and gramdparents apartment.

[hazamnakrenduletlenu]

Shame you with your red tie !!! The New Word Order was our bigest ennemies with the President Roosevelt !!!

[AroundThePony]

good overlook,but what`s wrong with the dude in glasses,he`s weird.

[wojbert]

Hungarians are heroes in fight against communism i think the most punished by bolsheviks brutality. the best wishes from Poland for Hungarians brothers.

[olek1800]

Poland-Hungary = brothers in arms against communism

[kacsa17lo]

1956 annak a jelképe, hogy hagyták a magyart had dögöljön meg az utcán, s végezzék ki nyirkos börtönökben!

[mets1p]

@SashaVedernikov Brilliant response and about what I would expect from a Russian commie bastard like yourself!!

[mets1p]

@mets1p should have read yoke not yolk , I apologize for my typo.

[mets1p]

@SashaVedernikov You're either an Idiot or just here to disagree with people. Whatever your agenda you need to get your facts from the Hungarian people who lived under the yolk of Russian installed Communism. My parents who were in their teens at the time remember the occupation by both the Nazis and Communists. Guess who they felt treated the Hungarians better??? It sure wasn't the group with the hammer and sickle!!!

[thehunis]

@SashaVedernikov You are an ignorant idiot, Sasha Vedernikov!!

Keep your stupid opinions to yourself