Events in Hungary (1956)

Views of Budapest, bridges over the Danube, traffic over the bridge.

Conference hall.

Imre Nagy giving a speech.

Participants in the conference applaud.

Hungarian refugees crossing the Austrian border in a car.

Faces of men and women.

People cross the checkpoint at the border while trying to escape to the West.

Refugees at the Nickelsdorf border crossing.

Face of a Hungarian border guard.

The Hungarian flag with the communist symbol cut out.

Hungarian soldiers who went over to the side of the rebels.

Medical personnel, drivers of the German Red Cross medical humanitarian convoy before leaving.

Red Cross armband on the sleeve of a coat.

Red Cross symbol on the door of a truck.

A convoy of the West German Red Cross moves along the road.

Hungarian rebels with the Hungarian flag at the border.

Destruction of communist symbols.

Faces of people.

Broken plaster five-pointed star.

Funeral of the victims of the rebellion, laying wreaths on the coffin lid.

Relatives of those killed during the funeral.

View of an unfilled mass grave in a cemetery.

Meeting in Bulgaria on the occasion of the Hungarian events.

Headlines of articles from Western newspapers dedicated to the events in Hungary in 1956. Photographs of the Hungarian events and the victims of the rebels, published in newspapers.

Text of the message of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, published in the Bulgarian press.

Presidium of a meeting of one of the party organizations of Bulgaria.