Where gunfire transformed a protest into a revolution

The events at the Hungarian Radio Building are considered the moment that peaceful protests transformed into an armed struggle, and where the events of October 23rd became the Hungarian Revolution.

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The 16 Points that Demanded a Democratic Hungary

The students did not sit around uncertain of what steps to take next because together with teachers who shared their democratic disposition they worked out their demands.

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Apartment Squatting and the Revolution

The half-completed apartments were made inhabitable through family and factory connections. They installed the symbolic locks together, connected the electricity and gas, and then had the doors and windows made in the factories.

Revolution means democracy in today’s world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism. – Ronald Reagan