Porumbăcean, Claudiu (szerk.): Satu Mare. Studii şi comunicări. Seria istorie-etnografie-artă 32/2. (2016)
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ECOURILE REVOLUŢIEI MAGHIARE DIN 1956 ÎN ROMÂNIA SI LA SATU MARE > Norbert LÖRINCZ Abstract: The current article will present the pilot study of a scientific research proposed for a prolonged period of time therefore this pilot study will mainly focus on the more broad and generalized aspects of the Hungarian revolution and its influences abroad in order to commemorate the 60th year anniversary of the1956 uprising that eventually led to a revolution in a desperate attempt by the revolutionists to introduce crucial groundbreaking reforms to improve the quality of life in the Hungarian society. The events of Budapest in the autumn of 1956 will forever change the evolutionary path that the USSR will take from here. Often the revolution in Hungary is entitled as the first domino which fell within the Eastern Bloc. However there were signs already in 1953 on the 17th of June with the East Berlin uprising. This has shown the world that the USSR is not as intact and politically stable as Moscow would want it to be. Let us not forget that not long after the end of Second World War Tito has already chosen a “third way”for his Yugoslavia, which already infuriated the Kremlin in the early 50s. The revolutionary attempt in Hungary was therefore a sign of weakness in Moscow’s eyes and was only a matter of time until it will be utterly defeated with the intervention of numerous soviet infantry divisions coupled of course with heavy armor battalions. The threat of a potential “spillover” effect was feared in the neighboring Romania as well, therefore it was no surprise that the Romanian Communist leadership was willing to cooperate in the defeat of the Hungarian Revolution in order to stabilize its borders and to maintain control over its population negating the possibility of them (the population) to see the events in Budapest as a precedent one which they should also attempt to follow. Still despite their best efforts there were still glimpses of unrest in Transylvania and not only during the days of the revolution which were stopped dead in their tracks by the Romanian Secret Services. This was also the case in the small town of Satu Mare where during the revolution not much happened, however only in the period of 1956-1965 it has become clear how many people were arrested and sentenced with the pretext of “potential” cooperative with the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Most of the cases these were just fabricated accusations but there were a handful of Romanian and Hungarians alike who well and truly wanted to cause Satu Mare - Studii şi Comunicări, nr. XXXII/II, 2016, p. 237-252
