Eighty years ago, after World War II, Winston Churchill declared, “ … an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent….” It was the beginning of the Cold War between the Western democracies and the Soviet communist dictatorships. Seventy years ago, this past Friday, on Oct. 23, 1956, Hungarians behind this Iron Curtain rose up in unison and revolted against the cruel communist dictatorship kept in power by the Soviet Union.
The world watched in awe as the Hungarians took up arms and faced the Soviet tanks with Molotov cocktails to gain back their freedom and sovereignty. They exposed for the world the lies and the failures of the communist system.
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