Michael Peck
Politics, Europe
The 1956 uprising ultimately failed, but delivered a serious shock to the Soviet system.
It was sixty years ago when teenagers hurling Molotov cocktails breached a crack in the Iron Curtain.
In the autumn of 1956, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and the rest of eastern Europe seemed firmly in the grip of the Soviet Empire. Not that the empire’s subjects liked it that way. Anticommunist guerrillas plagued Soviet rule in Ukraine and the Baltic states throughout the 1950s. Hundreds of striking East German workers were killed in 1953 by Soviet troops and East German Volkspolizei, while dozens more Polish …read more
Source: The National Interest
