BLOODY THURSDAY, 1956: THE ANATOMY OF THE KOSSUTH SQUARE MASSACRE
BLOODY THURSDAY, 1956: THE ANATOMY OF THE KOSSUTH SQUARE MASSACRE

Summary/Abstract: On 25 October 1956 one of the biggest mass murders in Europe in the second half of the 20th century took place on Kossuth Square in front of the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest. Three books have been published about this tragedy and the event is – at least in part – studied in many more publications. Despite this, neither politicians nor professional historians have yet thrown light on the events with sufficient depth or thoroughness. On the contrary, the Hungarian judiciary has obstructed the discovery of the truth by legal methods, as it has with other mass shooting incidents of the same period. In addition, the published accounts very often contradict or even fail to acknowledge one another.

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