Crowds marching past the Stalin statue on 1 May 1952

The rise and fall of Budapest’s giant Stalin statue

The most spontaneous example of destalinization in the communist bloc came in Budapest on 23…
Communist politician Dr Sándor Zöld

The grisly murder-suicide of Dr Sándor Zöld

One of communist Hungary’s grimmest events – and there’s plenty of competition for this title…