The Hungarian uprising 50 years later; how it changed the Cold War
The Hungarian uprising 50 years later; how it changed the Cold War
It is a strange quirk of history that the effects of the Hungarian revolt continue to be felt today not in Budapest but in North Korea. In a new paper, published by the Smithsonian’s Cold War International History Project, historian James Person reveals how the events in Budapest in 1956 helped make North Korea...
The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was a source of intense curiosity for western intelligence services, which felt that they had failed to anticipate the outbreak of violence in Budapest. Bill Hardy was recruited into the CIA while a student at Princeton University. By the time the revolt broke out, he was working in the...
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