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viologetbasl Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország), officially the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság), is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Hungary has been a member state of the European Union since May 1 2004.

[edit] History

Revolution of 1918 See Main Article: Hungarian Revolution 1918

Revolution of 1956 See Main Article: Hungarian Revolution 1956

In 1956 Hungary was a Warsaw Pact nation under the de facto control of the Soviet Union. Following the Soviet "liberation" of Hungary in World War II a puppet Stalinist government was installed and supported by the occupying Red Army. Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" condemning Stalin in early 1956 encouraged several Warsaw Pact states to seek a level of autonomy. Poland ousted its old Stalinist bureaucrats and installed Gomulka over Khrushchev's objections. Hungary followed with a student/worker solidarity movement in late October 1956 which installed the nationalist Imre Nagy as the head of the Hungarian government. Nagy's stated intent to remove Hungary from the Warsaw Pact led Khrushchev to send the Red Army into Budapest to bloodily crush the insurrection. Evidence suggests that Radio Free Europe, a U.S. propaganda organ, encouraged the revolt by promising Western military aid despite the unlikelihood of this (the Western powers were pre-occupied with the "Suez Crisis").

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