The Soviet invasion of Hungary was good and based and one of the few correct things Kruschev did. It's worth bearing in mind the uprising in Hungary coincided with Israel, France and UKs attack on Egypt.
It was a mix of a popular uprising against Kruschevs faked "secret" speech about Stalin which enabled the fascist elements (paid, armed and trained by US and UK) of Hungarian society to gamble their chance on getting rid of socialist rule
Fascists marked Communists homes with a white cross and those of jews with a black cross for extermination squads
The special correspondent of the Yugoslav paper, Politika,
(Nov. 13, 1956) describing the events of these days, said that!
the homes of Communists were marked with a white cross and
those of Jews with a black cross, to serve as signs for the extermi¬
nation squads. “There is no longer any room for doubt,” said
the Yugoslav reporter, “it is an example of classic Hungarian
fascism and of White Terror. The information,” continued this
writer, “coming from the provinces tells how in certain places
Communists were having their eyes put out, their ears cut off,
and that they were being killed in the most terrible ways.”
Andre Stil, editor-in-chief of the French Communist newspaper,
LHumanite, arrived in Budapest on November 12. He toured
the city and conferred with many Communist and other survivors
of the days of White Terror. His account is substantially the
same as the reports sent in by Times and Tribune and Common¬
weal and Commentary and U.S. News and Life and Politika eye¬
witnesses, fascistic mass murder reminding one of the Berlin days
of 1933—and the Budapest days of 1919. Thus:
After the tortures, those who were still breathing were hanged
Even dead people were hanged. The corpses of those hanged were
in such a state that many could not be recognized. The trees in
Republic Square still bear the traces. These corpses, in all parts
of their bodies, were bored through with bayonet thrusts, assailed
by kicks, tom by nails, covered with expectoration...
CIA sent terrorists to Hungary under the RED SOX program (Horthy here was the leader of the Hungarian fascists under 23 years of fascist rule in Hungary until Soviet liberation).
“The CIA sent RED SOX/RED CAP groups in Budapest into action to join the Freedom Fighters and to help organise them… Radio Free Europe, and the RED SOX/RED CAP groups encouraged the rebels.” Often since denied, this was something known at the time to those in the know. For example, on November 10 1956, the FBI tapped a conversation between Pagie Morris and Jay Lovestone. Morris said “I know the whole thing… Do you remember when I said to you that it was criminal to incite a revolution and a rebellion, and not to follow it through? … Well, the Wisner crowd incited it… And the Horthy crowd has been in it… That Radio Free Europe is the crowd that’s behind it.” The Horthy crowd being the party of prewar Hungarian Fascism. (James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence, PP.150-160)
The CIA chief in Vienna recalled that these “were very sad days” – we sat powerless on the sidelines watching the Soviets preparing to crush the revolution.(ibid)
Weapons were British and American
Some of the weapons used were American, and others almost certainly British. Mr Smith says MI6 and the CIA had buried arms caches in the woods around Prague and Budapest for use by “stay-behind” parties or fifth columnists in case of war.
Hungary, in 1954, was considered a "weak spot" of the Soviet Union according to US committee '
Again on New Years day, 1954, the Foreign Relatiosn Committee of the US Senate released a study, through its chairman, Senator Alexander Wiley which spoke of "accumulating tensions" and mounting "sabotage and underground activities" in Eastern Europe and referred in particular to Hungary as being the most tender spot - the "weakest link (Truth About Hungary p.112)
The mid-1950s were regarded by the British and the United States as the last chance to challenge Soviet dominion over eastern Europe. The Eisenhower administration had been elected on a platform of “liberating” the Soviet satellite states, but in the 10 years since the Allied victory in Europe, the Soviet Union hadstrengthened its hold over the central and eastern part of the continent.
USA was planning on WW3 with Soviet Union in 1943 (2 years before WW2 ended) whilst the British - at war with Hungary at this time "looked on at favour of Horthy" (Horthyism was the brand of fascism in Hungary in power for 23 years prior to Soviet liberation which was only more and more influenced by Nazism as the alliance with Austria and Germany deepened during that period and was to be the main fighting force in 1956)
By April 3, 1943, the editors of The Nation, in discussing “Rus¬
sia After the War,” warned that many of the rich insisted on the
inevitability of World War III—a “thought entertained by power¬
ful forces in the United States which fear any modification of
property relationships and are made uneasy by the possible exist¬
ence of a powerful and successful collectivist state in the world.”
Specifically, in terms of Eastern Europe, as Doreen Warriner
writes: “In 1944 all the anti-Soviet elements in the Balkan capitals believed that America and Britain would invade the
Balkans after the defeat of Germany,” (cited work, p. 21n.).
Leigh White, an American correspondent in the Balkans, writing
in 1944, commented upon “the disreputable dynasties (there) of
which our Metternichs of the State Department and Foreign
Office are apparently so enamored” (cited work, p. 459). The
distinguished English historian, Professor A. J. P. Taylor, in his
introduction to the Memoirs of Michael Karolyi, declares that:
“Even in the Second World War, when Hungary was an enemy
state, and democratic Hungarians, one might have thought, our
only friends, the British Foreign Office looked with favour on
Horthy, Kallay and the rest, while Michael Karolyi was held at
arm’s length.”
Americans graivated toward the fascist elements in Hungary at the end of ww2
When I left Italy in the Summer of 1945 (writes Mr. Riegel),
talk of an inevitable war with Russia was fashionable with the
Catholic Right and the small cynics who know the answer to
everything. Arriving in Hungary, I found this same inevitability
of war an article of general faith, intensified by a heritage of Nazi
propaganda and wishful thinking.
>He found, in agreement with all other observers—the testimony
of some of whom has been offered on earlier pages—that .. fasc¬
ism and para-fascism, with their off-shoots of anti-Semitism and
clerical reaction, are still strong forces in the country.”
>these forces gained encouragement from the American officials, for in
Mr. Riegel’s words: “The Americans gravitate toward the most
dubious elements remaining in Hungary, the remnants of the
gentry, industrialists, the higher clergy, and the motley assort¬
ment of fascists and opportunists.”
- Ibid Page 73
NATO furnished support to the fascistic elements of the Horthy fascists with:
The Mutual Security Act (of 1951) has as its stated aim, “to
maintain the security and promote the foreign policy and provide
for the general welfare of the U. S. by furnishing assistance to
friendly nations in the interest of international peace and secur¬
ity.” To this was added an amendment, introduced by Representa¬
tive Charles Kersten (R., Wis.) and approved by the House (and
the Senate and signed by President Truman in October) in the
following form, appended to the above:
and for any selected persons who are residing in or escapees from
the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bul¬
garia, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, or the Communist-
dominated areas of Germany and Austria, or any other countries
absorbed by the Soviet Union, either to form such persons into
national elements of the military forces of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization or for other purposes, when it is similarly
determined by the President that such assistance is important in
the defense of the North Atlantic area and of the security of the
United States (Congressional Record, August 17, 1951, vol. 97,
p. 10261). (IBID p.95)
The Soviet invasion of Hungary was good and based and one of the few correct things Kruschev did. It's worth bearing in mind the uprising in Hungary coincided with Israel, France and UKs attack on Egypt.
It was a mix of a popular uprising against Kruschevs faked "secret" speech about Stalin which enabled the fascist elements (paid, armed and trained by US and UK) of Hungarian society to gamble their chance on getting rid of socialist rule
Fascists marked Communists homes with a white cross and those of jews with a black cross for extermination squads
CIA sent terrorists to Hungary under the RED SOX program (Horthy here was the leader of the Hungarian fascists under 23 years of fascist rule in Hungary until Soviet liberation).
Weapons were British and American
Hungary, in 1954, was considered a "weak spot" of the Soviet Union according to US committee '
USA was planning on WW3 with Soviet Union in 1943 (2 years before WW2 ended) whilst the British - at war with Hungary at this time "looked on at favour of Horthy" (Horthyism was the brand of fascism in Hungary in power for 23 years prior to Soviet liberation which was only more and more influenced by Nazism as the alliance with Austria and Germany deepened during that period and was to be the main fighting force in 1956)
Americans graivated toward the fascist elements in Hungary at the end of ww2
NATO furnished support to the fascistic elements of the Horthy fascists with:
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