History Remembers...Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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The spontaneous uprising in 1956 by Hungarian students and workers protesting Soviet rule led to 20,000 deaths, countless injuries and an exodus of 250,000 people from Hungary.
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Scenes from the extraordinary life of Fidel Castro, the revolutionary president who weathered the 1962 missile crisis, the US embargo, the fall of the Berlin Wall and economic woe to lead a communist Cuba for nearly five decades
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Andras Suto, a writer and human rights advocate for his fellow ethnic Hungarians in Romania who was persecuted by Nicolae Ceausescu's regime, has died.Comment
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Hungarians have been marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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After the dual destructions wrought by the Holocaust and communism, Eastern European Jewish communal life was little more than a memory 15 years ago.
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Events in Ukraine continue to dominate the European papers. A Budapest daily takes everyone to task over the invalidated referendum on citizenship for ethnic Hungarians abroad. Two German dailies comment on Mr Schroeder's visit to China. And in France a sniffer dog forgets to sniff!
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BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife) -- Hungarians prepared for a new political era Thursday, August 26, after the country&#39;s ruling Socialists appointed Ferenc Gyurcsany, a flamboyant millionaire, as the new prime minister.
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Just three decades ago Jose Manuel Durao Barroso marched in the front line of the radical wing of Maoist students in his home country of Portugal.
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MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Communists and other Left-wing opposition forces rallied on Theater Square, in Moscow&#39;s center, on the 87th Bolshevik Revolution anniversary.
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Young people -- easily mobilized  through the Internet and mobile phone -- are a vocal and  radical force in Hungary&#39;s near-tribal political conflict, now  increasingly being fought out on the streets.
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This week's remembrances of the Six-Day War 40 years ago expose political divisions in Israeli society.
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Six hundred people, wearing black  uniforms and insignia which critics say are reminiscent of the  Nazi era, took an oath of loyalty on Sunday to defend Hungary  as members of a far-right "guard."
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The 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist Party is marked by Czechs.
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The ongoing celebration in the Ukrainian capital is beginning to take on a tinge of nostalgia.
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EUROPE awoke from its five-year nightmare on May 8, 1945, to begin the painful process of reconstruction, reconciliation and retribution.
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KARAJ, Iran  - Before Iran's 1979 Islamic  revolution, some of the world's finest cars cruised in Tehran  traffic, many of them the playthings of friends and close  associates of the Shah.