Humgarian Revolution Flashcards
How is the fact that Hungary was ruled by fear lead to the revolution?
Ruled by fear -The AVO (Russian secret police) used methods of terror to remove political oppositions.
Soviets controlled education and taught children a communist version of their history. This played down traditional links with the West.
How did lack of cultural freedom lead to the revolution?
The government controlled all film, radio, press and literature
The Hungarians were very religious people but communism prosecuted the catholic church.
The Hungarians weren’t allowed to speak freely about anything.
The leader of the catholic was imprisoned by the communists government.
How did the presence of soviet troops lead to the Hungary revolution?
-presence of Russian soldiers reminded people of the German occupation which made people feel uneasy.
Many Hungarians resented the red army stationed at their country.
How did poor standards of living lead to the Hungary living?
Many of the Hungarian goods were not used to benefit the Hungarian people used to benefit USSR?
Hungarian industrial workers were poorly paid.
Severe food shortages because Russians had introduced collective farming. Hungarian had to leave their farm and work collectively.
What were the results of the Hungarian revolution for the USSR and communism?
A hard lined communist government was set up under Janos Kadar.
Seen as military victory for Khrushchev.
The USSR looked brutal and cruel.
Thousands people in Britain resigned from communist party.
What were the results of the Hungarian revolution for the Hungarians?
4000 Hungarians were killed and 200,000 fled to the West.
Nagy was arrested and executed.
Hungary returned to being a pro-communist state
A hard lined communist government was set up.
What were the results of the Hungarian revolution for the West?
The USA was not able to ‘roll back’ communism
Thousand of people in Britain resigned from the communist party.
The West grew more afraid of the USSR. It increased Cold War tension
NATO got a poor reputation ‘not action:talk only’
Why did the Soviets defeat the Russians?
Soviets used 1000 tanks
Lack of effective support from the West
Russians resorted to terror tactics. Housewives were gunned down along worth children buildings were destroyed. Surrenders were shot down as well.
Why didn’t the UN help?
They were busy themselves were distracted by the Suez Canal. French and British troops invaded Egypt in order to protect the Suez Canal from new links established between the USSR and Egypt.
They also felt Hungary was too close to the USSR.
Why did the Soviets invade Russia?
Because in 1948 Yugoslavia had broken away from soviet control and in June 1956 the polish revolution meant Poland got were allowed certain reforms. When Hungary rebelled Khrushchev needed to make an example power and show that communist countries could not get away with this.
