Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hungary under Soviet rule:
liberation and oppression (2)
- Nagy's trial and execution
- He sought protection in
the Yugoslavian embassy
- He was arrested by the Soviet troops
and was accused of treason, and later
was found guilty by Khrushchev
- He was hanged 1958
- Khrushchev stated that Nagy's fate was
'a lesson to the leaders of all socialist
countries' to not make the same mistake
and cross Khrushchev
- The International reaction
- America offered 20 million dollars
worth of food and medical aid to the
Nagy Government
- Eisenhower (1953-61) praised the
bravery of the hungarian people and
encouraged them to fight on
- Even though the US
condemned the Soviet
invasion, they took no
action to stop it
- The Us failure to not support the
Hungarians proved that its commitment to
liberate Europe free from communism did
not include military support
- Reasserting Soviet control
- Khrushchev then appointed Janos Kadar as the
new Soviet leader (even though he was
undercontrol by the Soviets). Nonetheless,
Kadar published a 15 point programme setting
out the new government actions.These included:
- -Re-establishing
communist control of
Hungary
- -Using hungarian
troops to stop
attacks on Soviet
opposition
- -Remaining in the Warsaw pact