The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
An account of the events of the Hungarian Revolt in 1956 from one of the participants, Peter Pallai who was a student demonstrator. Link https://youtu.be/QQ69h7HYltI Transcript of the video Program Moderator: Next to the fallout from the division of Europe which followed the Second World War. As Winston Churchill put it in a speech from 1946, `an Iron Curtain descended across the continent, from Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic`. The consequence was that those on the west of that Iron Curtain after 1949 were generally under implied American protection as part of NATO, but those on the east came under the strict influence of Moscow, and not always willingly. For example 60 years ago, students and workers took to the streets of Budapest to protest at Soviet rule in Hungary. The demonstrations turned violent and for awhile the Revolutionaries were in control. In 2010 Ed Butler spoke to one of the rebels Peter Pallai, who was a first year stu...