S36E479 - Hungary 1956: Twelve Days That Shook the Soviet Empire

At 5:20 on the morning of 4 November 1956, Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy went on the radio with a desperate announcement: Soviet forces were attacking Budapest. Within hours, tanks and artillery would crush one of the most dramatic uprisings of the Cold War.

But how had a student demonstration just twelve days earlier grown into a national revolution that brought Hungary’s Stalinist regime to the brink of collapse?

In this episode, we follow the extraordinary story of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956: from political terror and secret police repression to the de...