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On the morning of 4 November 1956, Soviet forces attacked #Budapest. Within hours, tanks and artillery would crush one of the most dramatic uprisings of the #ColdWar
Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode479/
#Hungary56 #imrenagy #hungary
Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode479/
#Hungary56 #imrenagy #hungary
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#OTD 1956: Soviet tanks storm Budapest to crush Hungary’s revolution.
Prime Minister Imre Nagy broadcasts a desperate appeal as Hungarian civilians fight overwhelming Soviet forces.
The West condemns the invasion but does not intervene.
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Prime Minister Imre Nagy broadcasts a desperate appeal as Hungarian civilians fight overwhelming Soviet forces.
The West condemns the invasion but does not intervene.
coldwarconversations.com/episode479/
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On the morning of 4 November 1956, Soviet forces attacked #Budapest. Within hours, tanks and artillery would crush one of the most dramatic uprisings of the #ColdWar
Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode479/
#Hungary56 #imrenagy #hungary
Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode479/
#Hungary56 #imrenagy #hungary
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On the morning of 4 November 1956, Soviet forces attacked #Budapest. Within hours, tanks and artillery would crush one of the most dramatic uprisings of the #ColdWar
Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode479/
#Hungary56 #imrenagy #hungary
Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode479/
#Hungary56 #imrenagy #hungary
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Imre vividly describes his involvement in the 1956 #HungarianRevolution, his subsequent escape to Austria and eventual resettlement in England.
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Cold War Conversations Podcast retweeted
"Welcome to the German Democratic Republic", information brochure cover, 1950s.
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Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev celebrate the 25th anniversary of the GDR, East Berlin, 1974.
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#OTD 1956: Hungary’s defence minister Pál Maléter arrives for talks on Soviet troop withdrawal.
Instead, the KGB arrests him & his delegation.
Hrs later, Soviet tanks attack Budapest.
Hungary’s revolution is crushed. Maléter will be executed.
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Instead, the KGB arrests him & his delegation.
Hrs later, Soviet tanks attack Budapest.
Hungary’s revolution is crushed. Maléter will be executed.
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As often say to either @hoyer_kat or @rentaquill every day is a school day. Prompted by @ColdWarPod I thought I would scratch my Vietnam War itch, long standing condition. Despite 800 books in my home and reading about it for 40 years; I learned something new. From these two. 1
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We've been featured on ATTENTION!, a weekly military history podcast digest
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On the morning of 4 November 1956, Soviet forces attacked #Budapest. Within hours, tanks and artillery would crush one of the most dramatic uprisings of the #ColdWar
Listen here 🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode479/
#Hungary56 #imrenagy #hungary
Listen here 🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode479/
#Hungary56 #imrenagy #hungary
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At twenty-one, Rich was trusted with a nuclear-capable rocket but forbidden to tell even his family what he did.
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#HostJohn #nuclearweapons #USarmy #draft
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#HostJohn #nuclearweapons #USarmy #draft
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Soviet TU-144 at Berlin Schönefeld, 1982.
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"...because some history is better with the volume turned up!"
Listen to me introducing Bang! 101 Songs about Nuclear War from the 1980s Season 2 finale at the link below
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Listen to me introducing Bang! 101 Songs about Nuclear War from the 1980s Season 2 finale at the link below
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‘Traitors in every family’: Hungary to unmask communist-era informants and confront past theguardian.com/world/2026/nov…
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#OTD 1963: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a US-backed military coup.
Kennedy is shocked by his former ally’s murder.
Washington hopes for stability. Instead, the coup deepens America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
Kennedy is shocked by his former ally’s murder.
Washington hopes for stability. Instead, the coup deepens America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
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#OTD 1952: The US detonates Ivy Mike, the world’s first full-scale hydrogen bomb.
700 times more powerful than Hiroshima, it completely destroys a Pacific island.
The Cold War nuclear arms race has entered a terrifying new era.
700 times more powerful than Hiroshima, it completely destroys a Pacific island.
The Cold War nuclear arms race has entered a terrifying new era.
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