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Liberals looked at this event and created the term "tankie" from it claiming the Soviet Union crushed a " genuine worker revolution" (lemmy.ml)

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source https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2025/0318/104-10110-10525.pdf

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nothing says authoritarianism like responding the Hungarian People's Republic request for aid in suppressing a bourgeois counterrevolution.

I wonder what will happen to Radio Free Europe’s back catalog now that it’s been defunded.

RFE And The Hungarian Revolution — Original Broadcasts, Reporter’s Diary Now Online

RFE’s role during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution has been the subject of debate by researchers and Hungarian exiles. A. Ross Johnson, a former Director of RFE, has concluded on the basis of extensive research that RFE “did not” foment revolution or urge Hungarians to wage a hopeless fight against the Soviet Army, but many listeners believed from the tone of some RFE commentaries and the very existence of RFE Hungarian broadcasts that Western powers would intervene on their behalf.