„Egy nép kiáltott. Aztán csend lett.”; Az 1956-os forradalom Székesfehérvárott (Székesfehérvár, 1996)

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and commercial units and transportation companies stopped striking. These steps were made to consolidate political relations. On 3rd November the Executive Committee of the National Committee confirmed their previous resolutions about starting to work again. They ordered all economical and social organizations to work again. (This date would have been the 5th November.) The presidency of the county's Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party which was formed on 2nd November joined the revolution and admitted its achievements. Mass transport started on the same day in the town and the county too. On 4th November the Socialist military intervention broke the national development and suppressed the revolution. Between 4 and 5 o'clock in the morning soviet armoured units with the help of the infantry under the leadership of some Hungarian individuals went to the streets, fired public buildings and the infantry penetrated into the houses through the holes. National Guard units were alarmed but the struggle was unequal and part of them hid in Bakony Mountains. The defence headquarters was in the buliding of Officers' Club. Here they showed resistance but soon the mechanized infantry defeated them as soldiers had only hand grenades. The soviet army captured all the strategical objects. They confiscated the weapons of factory guards on the following day. The Hungarian Army was disarmed and sent away. Some of them together with civil people were taken away as prisoners of war. On 5th November a group of 30 or 40 people (the Babolcsai-Márton squad) began an independent action breaking with the earlier defense plans which could not be carried out. Near the downtown in Vas József Street members of the squad who did not reveivé combat training nor gave armed service began an assault against the soviet occupying forces. Later the group gathered around „öreghegyi" Radio Station, they assaulted and captured it. The soviet military headquarters began to work in the Townhall, and civil employees were ordered to resume work. On 6th November the Russian military headquarters together with leaders of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party discussed how to take up work again and consolidate political and social life. Then the National Committee of the town dissolved itself. On 7th November a government officier became the head of the county. On 8th November the county presidentship of the Hungarian Social ist Workers' Party took shape. Radio Vörösmarty began to broadcast again. In the first issue of the county daily, Fejér Megyei the articles were to justify the soviet intervention against the revolution. The achievements of the revolution were started to be eliminated by civil organs of the proletarian dictatorship. The revolutionary committees, councils and other organs stopped their activities.