The Hungarian Revolution

Podcast: Witness History · BBC World Service

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

In October 1956, students and workers took to the streets of Budapest to protest at Soviet rule in Hungary. The demonstrations turned violent and for a while, the revolutionaries were in control, before being brutally repressed. In 2010, Ed Butler spoke to one of the rebels, Péter Pallai. Witness History is a short BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through first-hand testimony and archive. Each weekday, in around nine minutes, we revisit one moment that helped shape the world and hear it through the voice o...