Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday likened the European Union to the former Soviet Union and ...

Further referencing Hungary's own history with Soviet intervention, he added, "precious Hungarian lives" must be treated with caution rather than "offering them up" for military defense.

Hungary declared a peoples republic led by first secretary of the Hungarian Communist party Matyas Rakosi. Soviet control strengthened through a series of purges carried out under Rakosi. He imprisons ...

The Church was built as a symbol of “gratitude” for the collapse of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. The symbology of the church made it an obvious target for the leftist ...

Now approaching 79, Maurer was born into the Hungarian Soviet Republic, the first communist state set up after Soviet Russia. She had the unusual freedom to roam between communist Eastern Europe and ...

The author: Professor Eugene Varga. Professor Varga was People’s Commissar of Finance in Bela Kun’s Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919). Like Bela Kun, Varga fled to Moscow when the Hungarian ...

The 1956 Hungarian Uprising was crushed by Soviet tanks and troops ... led Warsaw Pact forces invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Around 137 Czechs and Slovaks died as a result of ...

Hungarian PM Orban's Aide Sparks Outrage With Soviet Invasion Comment By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A top aide of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has triggered outrage by suggesting that ...

BUDAPEST, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A top aide of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has triggered outrage by suggesting that Hungary would have fared better by not resisting the 1956 Soviet invasion ...