Seventy years ago, the uprising revealed the failures of the communist system.
After World War II, Winston Churchill said that “an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent,” which marked the beginning of the Cold War between the Western democracies and the Soviet communist dictatorships. Seventy years ago, on October 23, 1956, Hungarians behind this Iron Curtain rose up in unison and revolted against the cruel communist dictatorship kept in power by the Soviet Union. The world watched in awe as the Hungarians took up arms and faced the Soviet tanks to win back their freedom and sovereignty. They exposed the lies and the failures of the communist system for the world ...
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