Word: budapests
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...rebels retaliated by hanging Soviet soldiers. Roaming bands of rebels outside Budapest drove back Soviet units, set up roadblocks and cleared a corridor toward Vienna. The tide of battle was turning towards the provinces, and the faint voice of "freedom stations" was heard calling for a general strike throughout the country. An independent Hungarian government was reported to have been set up at Gyor (pop. 66,000), an industrial town 66 miles west of Budapest. At Pecs (pop. 87,000) in the south one rebel radio station was heard broadcasting military orders, indicating that a sizable part of the Hungarian...
...sixth day of Hungary's people's revolution, rebels were in control of much of the countryside, but Soviet tanks, withdrawing to the outskirts of Budapest, left behind a crushed city, ringed by Soviet steel. Moscow announced that it was ready to negotiate a withdrawal of all Soviet forces from Hungary. To cold, bone-weary rebels, Communist Radio Budapest broadcast: "Please, please stop. You have won. Your demands will be fulfilled...
...truck loaded with soldiers and rifles stopped in a Budapest street beside a band of shouting civilians. "Go ahead take them," a soldier said. "No!" said a man who seemed to be their leader "Our weapon is the flag." Behind him fluttered Hungary's red, white and green banner...
...streets of Budapest were like a favorite proletarian tableau come to frightening life-shouting students, muscular workers, flag-waving women raising fists on the barricades and braving death. But the oppressors they defied were their Communist masters. As the final irony of this amazing situation, the only word the Communists could think of to apply to these genuine revolutionaries was the epithet "counter-revolutionaries...
...time, the Communists may try to renege on the promises they made in panic. But the promises themselves are significant. On the revolution's sixth day, Premier Imre Nagy announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to withdraw its troops from Budapest, pledged that Hungary's hated security police would be disbanded, that the "serious sins" of the past twelve years would be rectified, and that his government would embrace the "new democratic forms of self-government initiated by the people...