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Last Updated: Monday, 25 September 2006, 16:55 GMT 17:55 UK
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Timeline: Hungarian Revolution



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HUNGARY'S 1956 REVOLUTION

Hungarian flagDivided society
Hungary is too polarised for Left and Right to mark the anniversary together

A Soviet tank in the streets of BudapestTurning point
The uprising coincided with the Suez crisis and showed Moscow's refusal to lose its grip

tom Leimdorfer'It was mayhem'
A refugee's dramatic account of how he fled the Budapest fighting as a 14-year-old

Man and child escaping Hungary in 1956Brain drain
The impact at home and abroad of the 200,000 who fled after the Uprising

Head of Stalin's statueHow it happened
A timeline of how the Hungarian Revolution was won, lost and won again
Hungary country profile
The Revolution in pictures
On This Day: Hungarians rise up
Eyewitnesses: Hungarian uprising

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Timeline: Hungary
19 Sep 06 |  Country profiles

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