About this experience
"Budapest Events" - this is what was happening in the Hungarian capital from October 23 to mid-November 1956. It was called a "rebellion," a "counterrevolutionary coup," and an "interrupted revolution": Budapest then tried to overthrow communist rule. We will walk through the main events of those days and I will tell you why and how they happened.
It all began with a student demonstration. Then events followed one after another, and it's not so easy to understand what was the cause and what was the effect. Stalin's statue was toppled, a rally at the Parliament was shot, Soviet troops were introduced...
What to expect
The city holds memories of those days. Evidence can be seen at every step: monuments, memorial plaques, museums. And also - traces of bullets and shells on the city's buildings. There are many of them, despite the fact that more than half a century has passed. Somewhere new buildings made of glass and concrete have been built on the site of destroyed buildings. Somewhere facades have been re-plastered. But nevertheless, the city has enough marks to convince you: this was a universal, decisive and heroic uprising; bloody and terrible, like any rebellion.
- We will start at Heroes' Square, where near the Millennium Monument the main memorial of 1956 is installed.
- Next - Lajos Kossuth Square, preserving the memory of the "Bloody Thursday", houses in Erzsébetváros and Belváros with traces of shelling, and the surroundings of the "Corvin" cinema, where the rebels held their positions the longest.
- And in the end - the "House of Terror".
