BUDAPEST, Hungary – Opponents of Prime Minister Viktor Orban are using referee whistles to disturb the government's commemorations of Hungary's 1956 revolution. Opposition politicians say Orban's ...

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 ...

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 ...

My most vivid memory of the Revolution is its smell—of piles of plaster fallen to the ground, soaked by rain, and of the putrefying corpses buried underneath. The wall-less houses, partly destroyed by ...

Many have tried to compare Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland. A much better comparison is Soviet action during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when, in response to the ...

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 ...

When it comes to remembering the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Lorain County’s International City, the crowd of freedom fighters and refugees who participated in putting a crack in the foundation of ...

During this anniversary, we commemorate several things: a spontaneous march on Oct. 23, 1956, turning into a national uprising; a revolution, if you will, fought by everyday people on the streets of ...