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Budapest

Budapest (Hungarian: [ˈbudɒpɛʃt]) is the capital and the largest city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union. It is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre, sometimes described as the primate city of Hungary. According to the census, in 2011 Budapest had 1.74 million inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2.1 million due to suburbanisation. The Budapest Metropolitan Area is home to 3.3 million people. The city covers an area of 525 square kilometres (203 sq mi). Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with the unification of Buda and Óbuda on the west bank, with Pest on the east bank on 17 November 1873.

On 23 October 1956 citizens held a large peaceful demonstration in Budapest demanding democratic reform. The demonstrators went to the Budapest radio station and demanded to publish their demands. The regime ordered troops to shoot into the crowd. Hungarian soldiers gave rifles to the demonstrators who were now able to capture the building. This initiated the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The demonstrators demanded to appoint Imre Nagy to be Prime Minister of Hungary. To their surprise, the central committee of the "Hungarian Working People's Party" did so that same evening. This uprising was an anti-Soviet revolt that lasted from 23 October until 11 November. After Nagy had declared that Hungary was to leave the Warsaw Pact and become neutral, Soviet tanks and troops entered the country to crush the revolt. Fighting continued until mid November, leaving more than 3000 dead. A monument was erected at the fiftieth anniversary of the revolt in 2006, at the edge of the City Park. Its shape is a wedge with a 56 angle degree made in rusted iron that gradually becomes shiny, ending in an intersection to symbolize Hungarian forces that temporarily eradicated the Communist leadership.

More information on the English [1] and Hungarian [2] Wikipedia pages.
Communist Party of Great Britain

From the longer Wikipedia page [1]

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a British communist party which was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.

Founded in 1920 by the merger of several smaller Marxist parties, the party gained the support of many socialist organisations and worker's committees during the period after World War I and the Russian October Revolution. Many miners joined the party through 1926 and 1927 after the General Strike of 1926. In 1945 two Communist Party MPs won seats in the general election. From 1945 to 1956 the party was at the height of its influence. It experienced its greatest loss of membership after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the party's Eurocommunist leadership decided to disband the party, establishing the Democratic Left think tank. The anti-Eurocommunist faction had launched the Communist Party of Britain in 1988.

The death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the uprising in East Germany the same year had little direct influence on the CPGB, but they were harbingers of what was to come. Of more importance was Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in which he denounced Stalin. According to George Matthews, Khrushchev made a deal with the CPGB to provide a secret annual donation to the party of more than £100,000 in used notes. Labour unrest in Poland in 1956 disrupted not only the CPGB, but many other Communist Parties as well. The CPGB was to experience its greatest ever loss of membership as a result of theWarsaw Pact's crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. "[T]he events of 1956 ... saw the loss of between one-quarter and one-third of Party members, including many leading intellectuals." This event was initially covered in the CPGB-sponsored Daily Worker, by correspondent Peter Fryer, but as events unfolded the stories were spiked. On his return to Britain Fryer resigned from the Daily Worker and was expelled from the party.

## Archives

Details of the archives, held at the Labour History Archive and Study Centre (People's History Museum), here.
71st Reform

Took place after the disband of the 71st on October 24, 2015

Four months after the disband of the 71st, 10 loyal members came together to reform the regiment on February 11, 2016.

These members were as follows (in no particular order): SliF, Cheeseypants, JackieChan, Supreme, Theodin, Tmix, Achilles, Skinny, Clone, RussianFury (links to player profiles to be added).
Lajos Pércsi

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

Lajos Pércsi (Földes, 21 July 1911 - Budapest, 10 May 1958) was a military officer in the 1956 Revolution, a martyr of post-revolutionary retaliation.

After completing elementary school he learned to be a blacksmith and then worked as an agricultural worker. In 1929, he participated in an anti-system demonstration, which is why he did not have a job for a long time. Finally, in 1933, he began his military service, undertook four years of service, and in 1939 he was installed as a sergeant.

In 1941, after Hungary went to war, he applied as a professional soldier, and in 1944 he took part in the battles of the Great Plain. After the Arrow Cross took power, he sought the right opportunity to side with the Soviets, who finally saw this as having arrived in December and fled from his army to the Soviets, who sent him to Debrecen.

After the war, he applied to the new army, and was admitted to the Kossuth Military Academy in 1947, after which he was awarded a rank high. After various garrison services, he was assigned to the Army Department of Military School of the Ministry of Defense. In 1955 he completed the Hunyadi János Lövész Officer School, where he was awarded the rank of Major. He became a member of MKP, then MDP.

When the Revolution broke out, he spent his vacation in the countryside. On October 30, he traveled to Budapest, where he was involved in the search of his associate for interrogating the intercepted ÁVH officers protecting the Hungarian Radio on 24 October. As a result of the interrogation officers were placed in custody with charges of murder. After finding the Alakulata, he participated in the fight against the Soviet armor, and on November 2, he was appointed commander of the team, János Solymosi. During the Soviet attack on November 4, he defended the defense at Schmidt Castle in Óbuda. He blew up the radio transmitter station at Hármashatár Hill, and then attacked a Soviet column with his team. However, in the event of overdraft, he laid down the gun on November 5th. He went home and went on to the Petőfi Military Academy on November 16, where he was discharged. He then became a trainee driver until May 31, 1957, when he was arrested, jailed and sentenced to death. On May 10, 1958, he was executed together with two fellow soldiers.
Ivan Serov

State Security General Ivan Alexandrovich Serov (Russian: Ивáн Алексáндрович Серóв, 13 August 1905 – 1 July 1990) was a prominent leader of Soviet security and intelligence agencies, head of the KGB between March 1954 and December 1958, as well as head of the GRU between 1958 and 1963. He was Deputy Commissar of the NKVD under Lavrentiy Beria, and was to play a major role in the political intrigues after Joseph Stalin's death. Serov helped establish a variety of secret police forces in Central and Eastern Europe after the rise of the Iron Curtain, and played an important role in crushing the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Serov headed both the political intelligence agency (KGB) and the military intelligence agency (GRU), making him unique in Soviet/Russian history.

Serov played a key role in the Hungarian crisis, sending reports to the Kremlin from Budapest, and escorting visiting Soviet Presidium leaders Anastas Mikoyan and Mikhail Suslov via an armoured personnel carrier into Budapest on 24 October, because there was too much shooting in the streets.

In 1956, the Hungarian revolution overthrew the incumbent Communist Hungarian government and in response to this, János Kadar formed a new government more loyal to Moscow, but this received little popular support. Serov was responsible for arresting supporters of Imre Nagy who were trying to negotiate with Soviet military officials.

Serov organized deportations of Hungarians, among them Imre Nagy. Serov co-ordinated the abduction of Pál Maléter, the Hungarian general, and the disruption of peace talks between the Red Army and the Hungarian forces.

More information on the English and Russian Wikipedia pages.

For his link to the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg see [1]
Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini

From the French Wikipedia page; more information on the Hungarian Wikipedia page - there is also some information on the German and Polish pages.

Born 30 January 1927, Paris, and died 7 November 1956, Neuilly sur Seine, France, was a Franco-Swiss journalist.

His father came from the Swiss canton of Tessin and his mother was from Monaco. He joined Paris Match as a reporter in 1948 and made many visits to Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union with the journalist Dominique Lapierre and their wives.

He died in the clinic at Neuilly-sur-Seine from wounds received in Budapest on 30 October while photographing the events of the uprising.

With the news of the 1956 Revolution, he and three other partners travelled to Hungary. On October 28 he was in Mosonmagyarovar and photographed the funeral of the victims of the volley. The next day he arrived in Budapest, where after the ceasefire and the general amnesty was proclaimed, he was relieved to take photos of the streets of Pest. On the morning of the 30th, when he learned of the clashes in Republic Square he went with his correspondent and helper Paul Mathias. He was photographed in front of House No. 25 close to the House of Commons, when, under the circumstances still unclear, there was a group of submachine guns: fourteen balls were fired in his body, breaking his legs, belly and spine. The wounded reporter was transported urgently to the Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital, where he was operate on twice. His correspondent succeeded in bringing him on airplanes to Paris on November 3, 1956 and to undergo new surgeries at the Neuilly-sur-Seine clinic.
Imre Kovács

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

Imre Kovács ( Monor, October 13, 1929 - Budapest, October 7, 1958) caretaker.

After October 28, 1956 he entered the VII. District Guard, where he worked as a patrol. He also participated in the siege of the Republic Square party house and in the arrest of state defense subordinates. With the rest of his group, he disarmed the guard of the Eötvös Street Warehouse, where he managed to gain more weapons. He got information about the hiding of ÁHVs in the center of Akácfa Street, the capital city of Budapest, so he directed an attack on the center. Even after the Soviet invasion of 4 November, he continued to be active, and then, after the revolution of the revolution, began to flypost leaflets. Even though he defended a party functionary, he was executed on October 7, 1958, because of his leadership of an organisation.
József Andi

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

József Andi (Pusztahencse, March 27, 1924 - Budapest, 6 March 1958) Hungarian military officer during the 1956 Revolution, martyr of post-revolutionary retaliation.

From 1946 he worked at the Budapest Electric Works as a laboratory technician. In 1950 he voluntarily entered the military, after the officer's examination he was given rank as lieutenant. He was a party secretary at the Ministry of Defense and was placed in the Matthias aircraft where he worked in the secret office. In 1955 he was promoted to a lieutenant.

On October 23, 1956, he applied to the National Guard, and in that capacity participated in the resistance of Csepel. After defeating the Revolution, he was dismissed from the Army in 1957 and forced to work as a mason in 1957, but he only worked for a brief time in his new profession because he was arrested on May 24 and sentenced to death and executed by firing squad.
George Matthews

George Matthews (24 January 1917 – 29 March 2005) was a British communist activist and newspaper editor.

In 1940, Matthews left the Labour Party, and during the war he was active in the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers. In 1943, he was appointed to the CPGB's Executive Committee, and in 1949, he became the party's Assistant General Secretary. He attended the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, and was acting editor of the party's Daily Worker newspaper during the Soviet invasion of Hungary. In 1947, he became the paper's Assistant Editor, moving to become Editor in 1949. In 1966, he gained agreement to rename the paper as the Morning Star.

More information on the Wikipedia page [1] and a Guardian obituary here [2].
István Dobi

István Dobi (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈiʃtvaːn ˈdobi]; 31 December 1898 – 24 November 1968) was a Hungarian politician who was the Prime Minister of Hungary from 1948 to 1952. He was the first Communist to hold the post, joining the party shortly after it seized full control of the country in 1949.

After all non-Communist parties were formally disbanded in 1949, Dobi joined the Hungarian Communist Party . In 1952, he gave up the prime ministership because Communist Party boss Mátyás Rákosi wanted that post for himself. Dobi was then promoted to Chairman of the Presidential Council (de facto president of Hungary) from 1952 until his retirement in April 1967. Through taking on numerous other high-profile roles, he eventually became the second or third most powerful man in Hungary. He supported the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was a winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962. He died in Budapest in 1968.

More information on the English and Hungarian Wikipedia pages.
Marxists Internet Archive

From the Wikipedia page [1]

Marxists Internet Archive (also known as MIA or Marxists.org) is a non-profit website that hosts a multilingual library (created in 1990) of the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Che Guevara, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, as well as that of writers of related ideologies, and even unrelated ones (for instance, Sun Tzu and Adam Smith). The collection is maintained by volunteers, and is based on a collection of documents that were distributed by email and newsgroups, later collected into a single gopher site in 1993. It contains over 180,000 documents from over 850 authors in 80 languages.

The website is [2].

The authors mentioned above all have Wikipedia pages.
Hősök tere

Hősök tere (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈhøːʃøk ˈtɛrɛ]; English: Heroes' Square) is one of the major squares in Budapest, Hungary, noted for its iconic statue complex featuring the Seven Chieftains of the Magyars and other important national leaders, as well as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The square lies at the outbound end of Andrássy Avenue next to City Park (Városliget). The square has played an important part in contemporary Hungarian history and has been a host to many political events, such as the reburial of Imre Nagy in 1989. The sculptures were made by sculptor Zala György from Lendava.

More information on the English [1] and Hungarian [2] Wikipedia pages.
Ferenc Jánosi

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

Francis Jánosi ( Sárospatak , 1916 . January 13 - Budapest , 1968 . September 2 ) Protestant pastor, teacher, Deputy Minister of the Patriotic People's Front, the first Secretary General of the Petofi Museum of Literature, and Imre Nagy's son in law.

After obtaining a Reformed Pastor's Certificate in Sárospatak, he became a scholar at the Theological Faculty of the University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 1941 he obtained a Hungarian-Latin-Greek teacher diploma at the Debrecen University of Science. In Vajdacska, beside Sárospatak, he was a Calvinist pastor, then in 1943 he was called for military service and fell into Soviet detachment as a lieutenant-general of the camp.

He edited the Hungarian Newspaper issued by the Red Army during the war. His wife Elizabeth was the daughter of Imre Nagy,. They had two children: Ferenc and Katalin.

He was head of department at the Ministry of Defense of the Temporary National Government of Debrecen, then the first deputy of the Minister of National Cultures (1951-54). On October 23-24, 1954, he was elected Secretary General on the Patriotic People's Front Congress. (It was then that Imre Nagy said the speech about national unity, which was subsequently accused of nationalism). Between 1955 and 1957 he was the Director-General of the Petőfi Literary Museum.

After the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence, he was arrested and transferred to Snagov, then imprisoned for eight years in the Imre Nagy court. With regard to his lung disease, he received individual grace in 1960. From 1963 he worked at the Budapest Archives of the 2nd State (Pest and Nógrád County Archives). He died of an infarct at the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia.

On June 9, 1989, the Prosecutor General of the Hungarian People's Republic, raised a lawsuit against the conviction of Imre Nagy and associates, and proposed the annulment of judgments and the acquittal of innocent convicts. On 6 July 1989 the Supreme Court Presidium Council set aside the judgments against Imre Nagy, Ferenc Donath, Miklos Gimes, Zoltan Tildy, Pal Maléter, Sándor Kopácsi, Francis Jánosi, Miklós Vásárhelyi and Jozsef Szilagyi and acquitted them all offense otherwise.
Mikhail Suslov

Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (Russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Су́слов; 21 November [O.S. 8 November] 1902 – 25 January 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial Chief Ideologue of the Party until his death in 1982. Suslov was responsible for party democracy and the power separation within the Communist Party. His hardline attitude toward change made him one of the foremost anti-reformist Soviet leaders.

During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Suslov, along with Anastas Mikoyan, operated in close proximity to Budapest in order to direct the activities of the Soviet troops and to lend assistance to the new Hungarian leadership. Suslov and Mikoyan attended the Politburo meeting of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party which elected János Kadar to the General Secretaryship. In a telegram to the Soviet leadership, Suslov and Mikoyan acknowledged that the situation had become more dire, but both were content with the dismissal of Ernő Gerő as General Secretary and the choice of Kádár as his successor. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet criticised Suslov's and Mikoyan's concessions to the new revolutionary government in the People's Republic of Hungary. Despite his initial reservations, Suslov eventually supported the Presidium's decision to intervene in Hungary militarily and replace the counterrevolutionary government's leadership there.

More information on the English and Russian Wikipedia pages.
Imre Kálmán Székely

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**Imre Kálmán Székely** ( Budapest , November 4 , 1893 - Budapest, June 27 , 1980 ) was a lawyer and a representative of the Democratic People's Party .

In the Second World War , he no longer took part in the battlefield, but was appointed to the court-martial. Right before the Arrow Cross takeover , his superior fired him, thus saving him from *Székely* publicly refusing to take the oath to the new power. After the war, he continued his work as a lawyer. He only got involved in party politics in 1947, when he joined the Democratic People's Party , which promotes modern Catholic, Christian-democratic principles close to his beliefs . In the parliamentary elections of August 31, 1947, he won one of the seats in the Greater Budapest electoral district and entered the Parliament . He was an active member of the Parliament, speaking at the meetings on numerous occasions.

After the end of his mandate, he retired from public life, although he was involved in politics in a narrow circle until the end of his life. He could no longer work as a private lawyer in the 1950s. After his wife replaced his workbook, they supported themselves by weaving scarves.

During the 1956 revolution , he participated in the reorganization of the DNP. After October 30, after Imre Nagy's government introduced the multi-party system , Sándor Keresztes , Vid Mihelics and Dénes Farkas drew up the party's manifesto in his apartment, in which they announced the party's reorganization. The Democratic People's Party raised its flag in opposition to the Imre Nagy government, but in full support of the October revolution. They requested a home and premises for the party. On November 4, after the entry of the Soviet troops, he himself signed the memorandum drawn up by István Bibó *(Declaration on the basic principles of Hungary's state, social and economic order and the path of political development)* , which was presented to KPS Menon , the Indian ambassador. He was arrested in 1947, but was ultimately not brought to trial and released. In 1958, however, he was permanently banned from practicing law. This was very deeply affected by the ban, and especially by the fact that his "unsuitability" was established by a cobbler. He could expect a modest income only if he could work for a lawyer. He died in 1980.
Gyula Abay

From the longer Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

Gyula Abay, until 1943 Gyula Neubauer (Budapest, 15 August 1891 - Budapest, 29 August 1978) economist, statistician, ministerial adviser, university professor, member of HAS and Szent István Academy.

In 1944 he was appointed a public teacher of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Erzsébet University.

In 1946-47 he was a deacon of the faculty of law in 1947-48. In 1948 he was forced to retire from the university, and in 1949 he was classified as an advisory member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1952 he retired, later he was reduced again. He worked as a statistician in 1952-53 for the Little Coal Mining Trust in 1952-53. He worked as a bookkeeper at the Pécs Water Directorate in 1955-56.

For 1956, he was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1957. From May to April 1959 he was sentenced to punishment, and he was released with amnesty. He wrote the Oeconomia Aeterna in Vác's Prison, which could not be released until the end of his life. In 1958, the MTA excluded him from its members. In 1989, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences rehabilitated and restored his academic correspondence.
Jenő Horváth

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

**Jeno Horvath** ( Budapest , 1921 . May 16 - 1994 . December 21 ), actor, director, screenwriter, Artist of Merit .

He was born on May 16, 1921 in Budapest. He completed his acting studies at the Academy of Theater Arts in 1944. He began his acting career in Debrecen in 1945, then moved to Pécs . He worked as a director-director in Szeged from 1947 . In 1949 he resumed his career in Debrecen, now as the director of the nationalized theater. He also arranged pieces in Miskolc , Győr , Eger and Kaposvár . The system of landscape performances, which brought significant cultural results in the early days, is connected to its name.

His wife is actress Éva Szentirmay , who also had to leave the Szeged National Theater after the events of '56 . “Her specific activities were not confirmed,” but it was also enough that she agreed with her husband’s behavior at the time. In addition to his removal from the theater in Szeged, he was also banned from his ancillary action for 6 months. Two sons were born, the elder Péter Horváth, writer, director and András Horváth, their daughter Emese Horváth.

From 1955 he worked as a director in Szeged , until 1957 he was a member of the Szeged company. For the 1956–57 season, Ádám Ottó left the former chief director in Pest, so this position was given to Jenő Horváth. He stood out with his bold choice of pieces, his business being the Shaw play, St. Johanna, presented on October 6th. it was a piece starring Papp Teri. The theater also featured “western” pieces for its fall 1956 show, including works by Pirandello and Anouilh . The Szeged National Theater was very active in the events of October 23, and St. Johanna was also played that evening. The play was interrupted until the crowd marching from Klauzál Square to the theater Károly Bicskeyin his theatrical costume he recited the National Anthem . Due to the events of the revolution, lectures were suspended from 24 October. Jenő Horváth also joined the protest of the city's university intelligentsia. He also attended the meeting held at the town hall by the military administration as a delegate to the theater and became a member of the Temporary City Workers' Council formed at that time, as well as the secretary of the Szeged People's Council (Szeged Revolutionary National Committee from 31 October ). A nov. He became responsible for the broadcasts of Széchenyi Radio , which started on the 2nd , which also took on a cultural role in addition to reporting on public news, as well as broadcasting classical music. In the revolutionwas sentenced to court for his involvement, was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but the prosecutor appealed for 10 years, and finally spent 3 and a half years in prison.
For Freedom and Truth

From an earlier version of the English Wikipedia page [1] - more information on the other language pages. The Wikisource page is [2].

'For Freedom and Truth', written by Minister of State István Bibó on 4 November 1956 in Budapest, was the last proclamation of the Hungarian National Government during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was the only person and representative of the government remaining in the parliament building, and was awaiting arrest by Soviet military forces.

The Soviet army attacked the dawn of 4 November 1956 and Imre Nagy visited the Soviet embassy for negotiations but did not return. In the morning Zoltán Tildy together with István Szabó and István Bibó held a meeting in the parliament, but when the Soviet troops reached and surrounded the building. Zoltán Tildy went to negotiate with them and reached an agreement: the Soviets could occupy the building after all civilians left safely and Zoltán Tildy would leave as well.

The proclamation's author, István Bibó, was the only cabinet minister who remained at his post in the parliament building and thus considered himself the only representative of the Hungarian government at the time.

The proclamation claimed that the Hungarian government did not seek to pursue an anti-Soviet policy, and denounced accusations that the revolution was orchestrated by fascists. It proposed that the Hungarian government would have been able to limit mob rule and said that the intervention of a foreign army was the major cause of tensions.

István Bibó called the Hungarians to not recognise the Soviet military or the Soviet puppet government as legal authority, and to resist them with passive civil disobedience, but not a civil war. The author had been in the government for only one day and claimed that the reason he did not call for armed resistance was that he was not aware of the military situation.

The author called the world great powers and the United Nations to protect the freedom of the Hungarian nation in accordance with the United Nations Charter.

The proclamation declared Minister of State Anna Kéthly to be the only authorised representative of the Hungarian government abroad.
Hungarian Social Democratic Party

The Social Democratic Party of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarorszagi Szociáldemokrata Párt, MSZDP) is a small social-democratic political party in Hungary.

The party grew in power and influence until the First World War, which resulted in the party fracturing into pro-war and anti-war factions.

The MSZDP fought the election of November 1945, finishing in a strong second place. From 1945-1948, the MSZDP governed in association with the Smallholders' Party. They were placed under increasing pressure to merge with the Hungarian Communist Party. Eventually, the right-wing were forcibly excluded from the MSZDP - and this allowed the party to officially join the Soviet-sponsored Hungarian Working People's Party. With the establishment of the police state, members were increasingly pressured to co-operate with the Communists. The grouping became the largest party in 1947, but by the end of 1948 the MSZDP had ceased to function independently.

The MSZDP re-emerged defiantly in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Under the leadership of Anna Kéthly, Gyula Kelemen and József Fischer the MSZDP took a prominent role in Imre Nagy's Provisional Government. For the first time in many years the party newspaper Népszava was published independently. Following the suppression of the Revolution in 1956 and 1957, the MSZDP disappeared again under state repression, and much of the leadership escaped into exile.

More information on the English and Hungarian Wikipedia pages.
Andau

Andau (Hungarian: Mosontarcsa, Moson-Tarcsa) is a village in Burgenland, Austria, near the border of Hungary. It is situated in the flat, lake-studded Seewinkel region which is part of the Little Hungarian Plain.

During the Hungarian revolution of 1956, 70,000 refugees escaped the communist regime by crossing the border from Hungary into Austria over a small wooden bridge, called the Brücke von Andau. This was memorialized by James A. Michener in his book The Bridge at Andau.

More information on the English German and Hungarian Wikipedia pages.

See also The Bridge at Andau.
József Papp

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

Joseph Papp ( Újpest January 6, 1917- Budapest October 30, 1956) army officer, died during the siege of the party headquarters Republic Square after a lynching.

In 1932, he studied at the Ganz Shipyard. He was without work for 2 years and then worked in the United Bulb factory. From 1941 he received a post as a radio broadcaster at the post office. From 1946 to 1948, he was the secretary of the Hungarian Student Youth Association (MADISZ) in Újpest. From 1950 he became an officer of the Hungarian People's Army.

He was shot at the siege of the party square party of the Republic Square when, together with Imre Mező and János Asztalos, he left the building with the white flag indicating a desire to surrender. In his body, Piroska Janko stabbed a dagger, then hung on his foot, his body was scorned. There was a story that his heart was cut out, but according to medical records contradict this.

At the time of the János Kádár consolidation, his name - together with his associates - became a symbol of the brutality of the "counter-revolution", honored as martyr, and named streets and institutions.
Lawbringer

## Overview

Lawbringer joined the community early 2013 and has been a part of many regiments as well as lead his own regiment to contend with (and at times defeat) some of the great names in history. He originally began learning line leading whilst running his own regiment and learned very quickly from AsianP. He was then able to transfer what he learned to effective use in the field in a rapid pace.

His melee style incorporates glitchy movements and defensive stances to catch players unaware.

Lawbringer is the current Lieutenant of the HMS Victory and previous leader of the 58eLigne and Neo-91st. During non-leadership times, he often would use the name "Blackheart". His historical name in the Neo-91st Regiment of Foot was "Matthew Scott".

## Regimental History

**63e Regiment d'Infantrie de Ligne** Tirailleur (March 2013 - Feb 2014)

**1er Regiment d'Infantrie de Ligne** (AsianP's) Cadet (May 2014 - June 2014)

**3eme Voltiguers de la Garde** (Grimsight's) Compagnie de la Garde Soldat en Premier (June 2014 - August 2014)

**18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot** Private (August 2014 - September 2014)

**Nr37 Infantrie Regiment 'Freiherr von Auffenberg'** Leutnant (September 2014 - December 2014)

**58eme Regiment d'Infanterie de Ligne** Colonel [Leader] (December 2014 - May 2015)

**58eme Regiment d'Infanterie de Ligne** Captain (May 2015 - June 2015)

**58eme Regiment d'Infanterie de Ligne** Colonel [Leader] (June 2015 - July 2015)

**58eme Regiment d'Infanterie de Ligne** Soldat de Deuxieme/Haitus (July 2015 - August 2015)

**58eme Regiment d'Infanterie de Ligne** Colonel [Leader] (August 2015 - September 2015)

**Neo-91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot** Lieutenant Colonel [Leader] (September 2015 - November 2015)

**HMS Victory** Lieutenant (December 2015 - Onwards)

**15th Yorkshire Regiment of Foot "The Snappers"** Grenadier [EU] (August 2015 - Onwards)

## Achievements

**5th North American 5v5 Groupfighting Tournament** - 3rd Place (Corndegs)

**North American Pro Cup** - 1st Place (58e)

**1st Regimental Groupfighting League** - 2nd Place (15th\_YR)

**2nd Napoleonic Linebattle Cup** - 1st Place (15th\_YR)

**3rd North American Napoleonic Wars League League 2** - 1st Place (Nr37)

**5th North American Napoleonic Wars League** - 1st Place (Neo-91st)

**6th European Napoleonic Wars League** - 1st Place (15th\_YR)
Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (Russian: Анаста́с Ива́нович Микоя́н; Armenian: Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan; English pronunciation: /miːkoʊˈjɑːn/; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1895 – 21 October 1978) was an Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the mandates of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev. He was the only Soviet politician who managed to remain at the highest levels of power within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as that power oscillated between the Central Committee and the Politburo, from the latter days of Lenin's rule, throughout the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, until his peaceful retirement after the first months of Brezhnev's rule.

More information on the English and Russian Wikipedia pages. His namesake and grandson, also known as Stas Namin, has a Wikipedia page here.
Hungarian Parliament Building

The Hungarian Parliament Building (Hungarian: Országház, pronounced [ˈorsaːkhaːz], which translates to House of the Country or House of the Nation), also known as the Parliament of Budapest for being located in that city, is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, one of Europe's oldest legislative buildings, a notable landmark of Hungary and a popular tourist destination of Budapest. It lies in Lajos Kossuth Square, on the bank of the Danube. It is currently the largest building in Hungary and still the tallest building in Budapest.

Martyrs' Square (Vértanúk tere) is immediately adjacent to Kossuth Square, with a statue of Imre Nagy.

More information on the English and Hungarian Wikipedia pages.

The English language version of the website is [1].
Imre Gyáni

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

Imre Gyáni ( Kisújszállás August 16, 1913- Dunakeszi January 1, 2009), high school teacher, Hódmezővásárhely honorary citizen.

His father was Ignác Gyáni (1870–1953) farmer, his mother was Terézia Veres (1881–1962). His brothers: Ferenc Gyáni (1902–1974), Lajos Gyáni (1906–1991), Gyula Gyáni (1908–1963) carpenter and Gyán Gyáni (1910–1993), a secondary school teacher.
In 1942 he married Margit Csáki (1920), a kindergarten teacher. Two children were born, Lajos Gyáni (1943), engineer-engineer and Gábor Gyáni, professor, historian, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Imre Gyáni was born in Kisújszállás in 1913, he completed his elementary schools in Battonya and Dévaványa, he graduated from the Reformed grammar school in Kisújszállás in 1933. In 1938 he graduated from István Tisza University with a degree in history-Latin-geography. During his university years, in 1937, he was a founding member of the Debrecen group of the March Front.

From 1940 he was a teacher and then deputy director of the Gábor Bethlen Grammar School in Hódmezővásárhely . From 1950 to 1957 he was the principal of the grammar school.

After World War II he was a member of the National Peasant Party (1945–1949), from April 1948 to national leadership. From 1946 he was a member of the Municipal Committee of Hódmezővásárhely. Between 1947 and 1949 he was the head of Szeged. From 1954 to 1957 he served as President of the Patriotic People's Front in Hódmezővásárhely.

On October 19th 1956, he was allowed to call the Student Parliament at Gethsemane Bethlen High School. 1956. On October 29, he was elected legally president of the National Committee. On November 1, he played a major role in the reorganization of the local peasant party organization.

He was arrested at the end of January 1957, first interned at Kistarcsa and then at Tököl. In 1958 the People's Court of Szeged sentenced him to 6 years in prison. He was first imprisoned at the Star Prison in Szeged and then at Vác . In the spring of 1958 he was forbidden forever from the teacher's career. Under the Amnesty of 1960 he was released on April 4th.

From 1960 to 1967 he was an external associate of the Agricultural Research Institute, and until 1981 he was the warehouse manager of the Bridge Building Company in Makó and then in Szeged . In 1982 he retired.
György Gömöri

From the Wikipedia page [1]: the Hungarian Wikipedia page is [2].

György Gömöri (Born April 3, 1934, Budapest) Hungarian literary historian, poet, translator and university professor.

His parents were Lajos Gömöri and Rózsa Fehér. From 1953 to 1956 he was a student of the Hungarian-Polish ELTE BTK. In 1956 he became a member of the Petőfi Circle. From October 1956 he was the editor of the University Youth . He has lived abroad from November 1956. From 1957 to 1962 he studied at the University of Oxford. From 1963 to 1964 he was a Polish and Hungarian teacher at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1964 to 1965 he worked as a researcher at Harvard University. Between 1965 and 1969, at the East European research institute of the University of Birmingham in England, and between 1969 and 2001 Cambridge he taught Polish and Hungarian literature. From 1969 he was member of the editorial board of World Literature Today. Since 1970, he has been a member of Darwin College, retired since 2001. From 1971 to 2003 he was a member of the editorial board of Comparative Criticism. Between 1989 and 1990 he was an editorial member of the Transylvanian Museum . Since 1994 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Vienna Journal. Since 2008 he has been the chair of the Rotary Literature Award Board.

In 1973 László Nagy and Attila József, in 1979 and 2003 Miklós Radnóti, in 1991 and 1999, György Petri, in 1996 and 1998, edited their own collections of poems written for Clive Wilmer. In 1996 György Szirtes edited the English anthology of modern Hungarian poets. Translated by: Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz and Clive Wilmer.
Georgy Zhukov

From the longer English Wikipedia page [1]

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Гео́ргий Константи́нович Жу́ков; IPA: [ɡʲɪˈorgʲɪj kənstɐnʲtʲinəvʲtɕ ˈʐukəf]; 1 December [O.S. 19 November] 1896 – 18 June 1974), was a career officer in the Red Army of the Soviet Union, who became Chief of General Staff, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Minister of Defence and member of Politburo. During World War II he participated in multiple battles, ultimately commanding 1st Belorussian Front in Battle of Berlin.

Zhukov followed orders from the then Prime Minister Georgy Malenkov and Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev during the invasion of Hungary following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Along with the majority of members of the Presidium, he urged Khrushchev to send troops to support the Hungarian authorities and to secure the Austrian border. Zhukov and most of the Presidium were not, however, eager to see a full-scale intervention in Hungary. Zhukov even recommended the withdrawal of Soviet troops when it seemed that they might have to take extreme measures to suppress the revolution. The mood in the Presidium changed again when Hungary's new Prime Minister, Imre Nagy, began to talk about Hungarian withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. That led the Soviets to attack the revolutionaries and to replace Nagy with János Kadar. In the same years, when the UK, France and Israel invaded Egypt during the Suez crisis, Zhukov expressed support for Egypt's right of self-defense. In October 1957, Zhukov visited Yugoslavia and Albania aboard the Chapayev-class cruiser Kuibyshev, attempting to repair the Tito–Stalin Split of 1948. During the voyage, Kuibyshev encountered units of the United States Sixth Fleet—"passing honours" were exchanged between the vessels.

The Russian Wikipedia page is [2].
Allen Dulles

Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌləs/; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, Operation Ajax (the overthrow of Iran's elected government), the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission. Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration.

More information on the Wikipedia page [1]

The John F Kennedy Archives page is [2] and the WNYC page is [3]; there is other coverage, of varying degrees of validity.
Infanterie Regiment Nr16 "Schwarze Jäger"

T*he Infantry Regiment Nr.16 "Black Rifle" was founded in the late stages of
2016, with the intention of forming an german-focused competitive regiment.We aim to become a large and active regiment but also a large and active community. The Nr.16 will primarily focus on melee and would like to have 1-2 events per week, consisting of trainings and 1vs1, we don't make normal Linebattles. Currently we are one of the most competitive german Regiments in the german community. In the Year 2016 played the Line Infantry Regiment Nr.16 with succes in the NWL, the most
famous league in the international area. Actually we play in the german
 groupfight league, we try to get the league or vice-master title. Since 2017 is the Nr.16 in a german brigade, the "LA", a german speaking brigade with one other regiment. The head language in the Nr.16 is german, but we have some international players, who speak a little bit german.*

***The Infantry Regiment  Freiherr of sparr(3th west) Nr.16 "Black Rifle" is the englisch translation of our name. Our regiment was found 2016 by Hauptmann Emma Brand and Leutnant Paboing. In the first time of our regiment we made only normal linebattles, but after the time we focus on 1v1 and gf matches. In game we use history german names, because the legendary german regiment Nr12 is our role model. Currently we are a small troop of 30 mens, but everyone of our mens have good discipline and melee skill. Small, but fine. We have in the week 1-2 events, but ifour members need more events, they can go to the event of our brigade. Our brigade is currently in two german leagues, the german rifle league and the german groupfight league. The leadingship of the Nr.16 is very experienced, because our full leadingship played long time in top international regiments like spartan hoplites, 15th or 66th. The history is very simple and unimportant for our players, but if you like regiments historys you can google our history. In the Nr.16 we expect those wishing to join to have the expectation of getting better at the game, to be disciplined and follow orders of your superiors. The Regiment accepts both german & EU players. In our regiment we coach EU players in the german orders, if you like the german discipline and power, then you are welcome in our regiment. We hope you conctact one of our officer or NCo's.***

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József Berta

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page [1]

József Berta (Veszprém, May 13, 1934 - Budapest, 2 January 1958) was a freedom fighter, a martyr of 1956.

He was born in Veszprém. He did not know his parents, and was raised as a child in a shelter by the house painter János Körmendi. After completing the eight general classes, he became a trainee at the Veszprém Library and then completed an eight-month course. After that he was placed in an instructor position. In 1952, due to his illness, he left his job and worked as a car attendant and then as a tractor driver. He married and had two children. In November 1954 he was called up to military service.

During the Revolution, he served in Várpalota as a miners' soldier. On October 25, 1956, he left his party and joined the local revolutionary events. He participated in the demonstration, then in the attack of the party committee and the police, in disarming the latter. The insurgents built barriers and barricades and attacked a number of Soviet car crashes coming from Hajmáskér during the day. The cars were fired, thirteen of the Soviet soldiers lost their lives. After the fight, he returned to his barracks, where he demanded weapons and ammunition, and tried to persuade his officers to join the uprising. However, the barracks did not join the movement on the following day, nor issued a weapon, although the protesters demanded that they have launched several unsuccessful sieges. In one of his attacks, Berta fought against the gunmen in the Castle Palace. He became a member of the National Guard, he also participated in the search for hidden members of the ÁVH.

He served as a national guard until November 21, 1956. At that time, they learned that the Soviet army was arrested by the people of the Revolution. They went back to the nearby woods, and were planning to continue fighting, but eventually the unit broke up, and several people fled abroad. Berta returned to his team from early December. Arrested on 14 February 1957. At first instance, on 2 November 1957, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for conducting an organization. This was adjudicated by Lieutenant-Colonel János Szimler, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Supreme Court's Military College, on 10 December 1957 to a death sentence. He was executed on 2 January 1958. After 1990, he was promoted to posthumous Honorary Major.