Aid from socialist countries to Hungary (1956)

Pilots in the cockpit of a Polish cargo plane.

Flags of various countries at Budapest International Airport.

A portrait of Lenin on the wall, a panorama of the airport manager talking on the phone.

Airport employees in the lounge.

Signaling to an aircraft about to taxi.

Faces of Hungarian military personnel.

Hungarians greet Polish pilots who delivered humanitarian aid through the Red Cross.

The Red Cross sign on the hood of a car.

Boxes of humanitarian aid are unloaded from a Polish plane into the back of a truck.

Hungarian and Polish pilots read the newspaper "Trybuna Ludu." A Red Cross representative looks at the destruction in Budapest as a result of the October 1956 uprising.

Humanitarian aid is distributed to residents of Budapest from a truck on a city street.

A motorcycle with a sidecar bearing the Red Cross symbol passes by.

Patients wounded during the uprising in a hospital ward.

A young man in a hospital bed.

A nurse cares for a patient.

A collection point for the Hungarian people on a Warsaw street.

People drop coins into a cup and receive commemorative tokens.

A billboard pillaged by shrapnel on a Budapest street, a panorama of the wall of a building with broken windows.

A collection point for monetary aid for the Hungarian people on a Warsaw street.

A collection cup filled with coins and banknotes.

A poster on the wall of a building.

Medicines collected by Warsaw residents for victims of the uprising in Hungary.

Loading boxes of collected humanitarian aid onto an airplane.

The plane begins taxiing to the runway.

Destruction in Budapest as a result of the rebel fighting.

Soviet troops on a Budapest street.

Loading sacks of flour onto train cars, sent from Czechoslovakia to Hungary.

Loading boxes of stewed meat onto a train car using a conveyor belt.

Loading sacks of potatoes onto a train car for shipment to Hungary.

The train worker closes the door.

The train sets off.