A Place in the Sun [antikvár]

CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Brittle Glory, Hungary before 1526 7 CHAPTER XL Betwixt Two Heathens, Hungary 1526—1945 11 CHAPTER III. The Sovietisation of Hungary, 1945—1956 19 CHAPTER III. The Uprising 29 CHAOPTERIV. Devictus Vincit 55 APPENDIX The Hungarian Uprising 1956 as seen by Australian leaders of the time 65 COVER PICTURE: Celebration atop Stalin's boots, remains of the giant statue. It was the first action of the first day of the revoh, to pull down the symbol of the hated tyranny. Foreword to the Second Edition Since this booklet was published twenty years ago marking the Thirtieth Anniversary of the revolution in Hungary, the Soviet Union has ceased to exist. Now, at the Fiftieth Anniversary the events are on the pages of past history. However our aim is still to remind, what happened and why. The world acknowledged the collapse of the „Evil Empire" as taken for granted, but failed to analyse the reasons — what went wrong — not only in that mighty world power, but in the ideology, which was able to captivate the minds of many generations to believe it to be the solution for all the social problems of the world. The Hungarians wanted to free themselves from the communist yoke, but failed. But their tragedy, especially in the way the soviets solved their problem, opened up the eyes of the masses of the Westem World, the intellectuals who invested hopes in the Russian experience, and more importantly the working class of the West. The Communist cause started to decline worldwide, and the rest of its history was a gradual decline into obUvion. Devictus vincit. The clarity of the impact of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in the minds of Australian leaders of the time was so striking that we decided to publish some of their brilliant remarks in 1981 in a leaflet. This leaflet is now attached to this book. (E. Csapó) 5