Transcript the hungarian revolution

THE HUNGARIAN
REVOLUTION
BEATRICE PARK
JAKE LEE
WORLD HISTORY 9E
Satellite States
Satellite states (client states) are countries that are independent
but under domination of a larger power. The Soviet Union’s
satellite states were usually ruled by Stalinists. Their
economies and politics were interfered by the Soviet Union.
Industries to
meet
Soviet needs
Soviet
Union
control
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Stalinist Leaders,
Soviet Army
Satellite States:
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, East Germany
WHY DID THE HUNGARIANS
DISLIKE SOVIET CONTROL?
 Collective agriculture, leading to food
shortages
 Emphasis on heavy industry , leading
to consumer goods shortage
 Reduction of the influence of the
Catholic Church. Leader of Catholic
Church was imprisoned by the
Communist Party.
 Restriction on intellectual activities
 Extraction of Hungarian wealth to
enrich the Soviet Union (Russia)
 The secret police, AVO, persecuting
churchgoers and non-communists
 Censorship and control over
Hungarian school curriculum
 “Russians Go Home!”
 “Death to the AVO!”
Khrushchev’s Thaw
“Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation and patient
cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and
demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever
opposed this concept or tried to prove his [own] viewpoint, and
the correctness of his [own] position, was doomed to removal
from the leading collective and to subsequent moral and physical
annihilation.” (Khrushchev, thinkexist.com)
= Stalin was a tyrant! Forget about him.
I will promise easier life for people.
The destalinization policy of Nikita
Khrushchev, the Soviet leader after Stalin’s
death(1953), gave hope to Satellite States.
Us too?
Will your troops leave?
Nikita Khrushchev
Well.. For now, only
Yugoslavia and Austria.
Satellite States
THE HUNGARIAN
REVOLUTION
Imre Nagy ➠
 Started on October 23, 1956.
 University students gathered 50,000 participansts.
 Claim for withdrawal of Soviet control& Stalinists in power
 Burn portraits of Stalin& Matyas Rakosi (Hungarian Communist Party Leader)
 Pull down Stalin’s statues
 Imre Nagy came into power as Prime Minister of new government.
Declared:
 Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact (military alliance)
 Hungary would be a neutral country
 Hungary would have democratic elections
End of the Revolution
 2000 tanks and 60,000 troops from the Soviet Union attacked Budapest
on 4 November 1956.
 Even though they fought against the troops, about 3000 Hungarians were
killed and 160,000 had to flee to foreign countries.
 Imre Nagy got arrested and executed - the Hungarian Revolution ended as
a failure to gain independence.
 After the end of the Hungarian Revolution there were only a few attempts
to challenge the Soviet power until 1968 - the Prague Spring of
Czechoslovakia.
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