The Responses of Foreign Governments and the United Nations to the Hungarian Revolution [antikvár]

The fíve bulletins on the Hungárián Revolution of 1956 are intended to give concise information about that event. The individual bulletins present the possible maximum amount of documentary evidence. These documents were collected by a few scholars who themselves participated in the events fifty years ago. Most of the contributors, however, are researchers who belong to another generation, too young to participate or not even born in 1956, but all of them are so impressed by those events that they have devoted their life's work to acquiring more knowledge, and have disseminated that knowledge to the possible broadest circle of readers. Each bulletin, therefore, will be printed in several thousand copies and will be distributed all over the world. The main themes of the bulletins are as follows. First, there is Imre Nagy's biography, showing this extraordinary statesman's life as he stood up for what he believed in. His life in a regime forced upon Hungary by the Soviet regime could not end otherwise than in martyrdom. Originál documents can be found in all bulletins, showing that nobody in Hungary wished for a revolution, but the absolute majority of the people wished for fundamental changes. They wanted to live under "socialism with a humán face." But when peaceftil demonstrators were shot at, the victims of Bolshevik terror answered force with force: thus the Revolution started. Non-Hungarian personalities and-mostly leftist-thinkers quite early understood the truth of the Revolution, and published their views. The responses of the population and governments of foreign countries, NATO and the United Nations to the Hungárián Revolution are the subject of the present bulletin.