Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-07-01 / 7. szám
10 FRATERNITY Paul Nadanyi: THE REVOLT THAT ROCKED THE KREMLIN “When you fired during those October days, when Communist army tanks on command from Communist leaders butchered Communist workers, it was Socialism itself your bullets and gun shells were splinting to bits.” Jean Paul Sartre (A Message to the Kremlin) 6. SOVIET MILITARY INTERVENTIONS From the 24th to the 28th of October, Soviet armor tried to crush the revolt and bolster the position of the tottering Hungarian Communist Party. Battles raged from one end of Budapest to the other. Fighting was particularly severe in the factory districts, where the determination of the workers grew in intensity by the hour. In the highly industrialized area of Csepel Island on the southern end of Greater Budapest the factory workers were reinforced by the local police and artillery units. In the middle of the city two of the major points of resistance were the Kilian Barracks and the Corvin Cinema, where units of the Hungarian Army fought on the side of the insurgents and repelled successive Soviet attacks. The UN Special Committe report notes that the Soviet forces confronted by opposition in Budapest, which they were unable to master, were in no position to control the provinces. The concentration of Soviet forces in Budapest left certain parts of the country, particularly the region between the Danube and the western frontiers practically free from Soviet troops.
