The Polish October and Hungary: Polish-Hungarian Relations from Kádár's Assumption of Power to the Execution of Imre Nagy and His Comrades
The Polish October and Hungary: Polish-Hungarian Relations from Kádár's Assumption of Power to the Execution of Imre Nagy and His Comrades

Summary/Abstract: On 4 November 1956, after the Hungarian Revolution had been crushed by Soviet armed intervention, the government of János Kádár came to power with Soviet support. On the one hand, the Kádár government was distrustful of the experiment associated with the name .Gomu³ka..the co-called .Polish path to socialism..but on the other, it was very much in need of support from the Polish leader, whose authority in Hungarian society was considerable. Hungarians remembered very well the recent event in Poland, which had been, after all, the spark that had lit the flames of revolution. The massive demonstration in Budapest on 23 October had begun as a demonstration of solidarity with the changes taking place in Poland. In addition, the demands that the Poles put forward during the October events and were partly fulfilled by the new Polish leadership corresponded to a large extent to the slogans voiced along the banks of the Danube in the initial stages of the Hungarian Revolution

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