October 23, 1956
A group of engineering students in the Hungarian capital of Budapest decided to hold a demonstration not about the situation in Hungary, but about Poland, where a revolt in the Polish city of Poznan had been crushed by the Soviet army in June. Word quickly spread through the city, and people started coming out of their shops, factories and houses to join the march. As 23 October progressed, tens of thousands of people poured on to the street and the initial demonstration very quickly turned into something else altogether: a full-scale revolt against the regime and its Soviet masters.
