To mark the anniversary of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, I’m publishing in this space an essay from Stephen Sholl, an American academic living in Budapest, and a friend I made this summer: ...
I’m being asked for a sense of historical perspective to capture the gravity of what Vladimir Putin and his Russian troops are doing right now in the Ukraine. Is this unprecedented? Is there a ...
Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF) Marion Smith and former Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Fehér, now a research fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's ...
When it comes to remembering the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Lorain County’s International City, the crowd of freedom fighters and refugees who participated in putting a crack in the foundation of ...
Nobody should be surprised at the U.N.’s failure to act decisively in the face of Russian aggression (“When Russia Loses the U.N. . . .,” Review & Outlook, April 8). On Nov. 4, 1956, after the Russian ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Sandor Kopacsi, one of the leaders of the failed Hungarian revolt against Soviet domination in 1956, has died. Kopacsi died March 2 in Toronto during a visit to his daughter, Judit ...
Hungarians are feuding bitterly amongst themselves as they mark the 56th anniversary on Tuesday of the revolt in which the nation rose up to overthrow Soviet rule in a 1956 revolution. With ...
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – The Danube cuts through the city—Buda to the left, Pest to the Right, the long gone Austro-Hungarian Empire on either side, stoically represented in the 19th-century Baroque ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Prime Minister Viktor Orbán compared Hungary’s membership in the European Union to more than four decades of Soviet occupation of his country during a speech on Monday ...
The pictures are shockingly similar, just 66 years apart. Russian tanks again roll into a sovereign Eastern European nation to crush the democratic will of the people. To defend themselves, citizens ...
Nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday accused the European Union of wanting to impose a "puppet" government on ...
Mayo Clinic carillonneur James Drummond’s regular Tuesday evening recital on Oct. 16, 1956, included a Hungarian folk song, “Magasan Repul A Daru.” The song, the title of which translates as ...