HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: De-Stalinization, Percentages Agreement, Open City
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Soviet troops begin reentering hungary on the 31st of october, clear that a negotiated settlement no longer an option. Nagy declares hungary a neutral, multi-party democracy. Seeking to follow in the path of austria. Kadar and 6 other revolutionary leaders disappear. Soviets reach budapest nov 4, insurgency crushed, nagy and government take refuge in yugoslav embassy. Nov 7, kadar returns, sets up his own government, declares nagy government void and actually a counter-revolution. Underground resistance continues into 1957, but eventually crushed. 20,000 imprisoned, 2,000 executed, thousands flee country. Nagy supposedly given free passage to austria. But lied to by yugoslavs, instead take to romania, imprisoned for 2 years, returned to hungary, show trial and execution. In poland, would think that gomulka would introduce liberalizing reforms. Instead, though he was not aggressively worse, did not make progress. Kadar conducted purges, but in 1960 relaxed regime political and economic control.
