Re:Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former a...
by kyusan0 on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:53AM
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"Prague Spring" was in 1968 and has absolutely nothing to do with Hungary, notably due to being the capital city of a whole other country.
The Hungarian revolution we're talking about happened in 1956, was intended to make Hungary leave the Warsaw pact altogether, and was indeed brutally suppressed.
The "Prague Spring" was not what is generally described as a revolution, hence its "poetic" name. It was people's protests and Hungarian government acceptance/compromise/accomodation that loosened the strictures the people lived under
The Soviet Union did send in troops to undo these changes, and it was brutal, there just was not an insurrection underway.