Photographs of Budapest During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Revisited

For the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the armed protest of the local population against the Soviet regime, Radio Liberty published a photo collection where it compared archive photographs of Budapest with the way the city looks today.

“For a few heady days in the autumn of 1956, Hungarians rose up and retook the streets from their Soviet hegemon. Soviet troops eventually reentered Budapest and crushed the uprising. But despite their eventual defeat, the Hungarian rebels of 1956 inflicted what would come to be known as “the first tear” in the Iron Curtain,” the authors say in the description to their project.