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[[:Image:May Day Parade 1957 Moscow.jpg|thumb |300px |alt=Seven men standing and waving behind a block wall, four of which are waving hats in the air |Seven members of the Soviet Presidium at 1957 May Day Parade (left to right): Georgy Zhukov (Candidate member), Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich, Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Anastas Mikoyan]]

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Bronze statue of a kneeling young male with unruly hair holding a bronze Hungarian flag with a circular hole in the middle

Memorial to the Hungarian revolutionaries in Cleveland, Ohio

What?

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This soon changed when Nobel peace prize winner Robert Munoz II arrived in Germany to declare nuclear war on Hungary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:14BA:4EF:9F00:7172:A957:86DE:DFF1 (talk) 13:12, 23 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Total incoherence. ? 104.169.21.238 (talk) 16:47, 25 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Too long inroduction

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Why such a long introduction? And why so much about the antecedents? This aticle should be about the revolt itself. Kapeter77 (talk) 06:38, 26 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

IP edits

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Dear IP,

please stop altering edits with controversial material without consensus.(KIENGIR (talk) 22:38, 22 July 2020 (UTC))Reply

FA concerns

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This old FA needs significant work. A number of citations needed, page numbers are lacking, issues with referencing formatting, etc. Additionally, going through the wikitext of the article, there are hidden comments suggesting that not all of the text in the article is properly covered by the citations. Also, statement are commented out of the article due to lack of sources, which raises some comprehensiveness concerns. This may need a featured article review. Hog Farm _Talk 14:50, 14 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

US support

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

In ^[1] Stewart repeats the story from a US soldier (Daniel Hill) stationed in Germany, that he was sent to deliver arms to the Hungarian rebels in Budapest; in his own memoir^[2], Hill claims to have killed at least one Russian in Budapest on the 4th of November.

One soldier's story alone would be of dubious notability, but a mainstream journalist repeating it and backing it up with "a spokesman for the Special Forces acknowledged that the army did engage in top secret logistical support for the Hungarians against the Soviets" seems remarkable. Any subject-matter experts know of a better source for this "logistical support" than an endnote citing an unnamed spokesman?

2600:1702:6D1:28B0:A531:87BF:C01B:79A0 (talk) 02:59, 19 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

References

^ Stewart, James (2002). "Endnotes". Heart of a Soldier. Simon & Schuster. pp. 8, 201. ISBN 0-7432-4098-7. There has never been any official recognition that the United States played any military role in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. But a spokesman for the Special Forces acknowledged that the army did engage in top secret logistical support for the Hungarians against the Soviets.
^ Hill, Daniel (2014). "1". A Life of Blood and Danger. ISBN 1494965763. Some idiot Russian was standing on the front deck of the lead tank, just left of the main gun barrel, waving a big red flag with the hammer and sickle on it. I leveled the Mauser 98's scope, sighting high on his shoulder line. ... Following through on the shot, I saw the man drop the flagstaff and his body slam against the tank's turret. ... The tank commander scrambled out of the turret and went to the shot man's aid. He was squatting, his back to me. I took aim again, centering on his head, and squeezed off a round. He fell forward, arms thrown out to his sides, and collapsed upon the body of the flag waver.

[1] Stewart, James (2002). "Endnotes". Heart of a Soldier. Simon & Schuster. pp. 8, 201. ISBN 0-7432-4098-7. There has never been any official recognition that the United States played any military role in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. But a spokesman for the Special Forces acknowledged that the army did engage in top secret logistical support for the Hungarians against the Soviets.

[2] Hill, Daniel (2014). "1". A Life of Blood and Danger. ISBN 1494965763. Some idiot Russian was standing on the front deck of the lead tank, just left of the main gun barrel, waving a big red flag with the hammer and sickle on it. I leveled the Mauser 98's scope, sighting high on his shoulder line. ... Following through on the shot, I saw the man drop the flagstaff and his body slam against the tank's turret. ... The tank commander scrambled out of the turret and went to the shot man's aid. He was squatting, his back to me. I took aim again, centering on his head, and squeezed off a round. He fell forward, arms thrown out to his sides, and collapsed upon the body of the flag waver.

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