Hungarian Uprising
October 23, 1956
Budapest students toppled a giant statue of Stalin and dragged it through the streets. Within days a reformist government had declared neutrality and begun to leave the Warsaw Pact. The Soviets sent tanks. For a week the Hungarians fought them with Molotov cocktails. Twenty-five hundred died; two hundred thousand fled west. Imre Nagy was hanged.
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