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| With what percentage of the vote did the Hungarian Workers' Party come to power in 1945? |
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| What did Rákosi say about his enemies? |
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| "I have cut them off like pieces of salami" - Rákosi |
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| How many people had Rákosi executed and imprisoned? |
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| 2,000 executed; 10,000 imprisoned |
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| When was Rákosi replaced by Nagy? |
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| When was Rákosi replaced by Gerő? |
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| On what day did the Uprising begin? |
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| To how many people did the crowd in Bem Square grow as it marched towards parliament? |
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| When did Hungarian Security Police open fire on a crowd? How many people did they kill and wound? |
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| October 25th 1956; killed 12 and wounded 170 |
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| When did Nagy come to power again during the uprising? |
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| When did Nagy announce the release of political prisoners? |
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| When did Nagy announce his intention to withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact? |
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| How many tanks did the Soviet Union deploy into Hungary to crush the Uprising by force? |
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| When did the Soviets send new troops into Hungary to crush the uprising? |
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| When did Nagy announce the creation of a coalition government? |
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| When did workers and students call for a ceasefire to end the Uprising? |
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| How many people (including Nagy himself) were estimated by the CIA to have been executed by Kádár's post-Uprising government? |
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| What did the head of NATO, Paul Henri-Speake, call the Uprising? |
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| "The collective suicide of a people" - Paul Henri-Speake |
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| What did US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles say about the possibility of US intervention in Hungary? |
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| "We do not look upon these nations as potential military allies" - John Foster Dulles |
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