Russia works to 'tip scale' for Orban in Hungary election
DW | 14.03.2026 14:33
The small black plaque on the facade of house No. 99 on Budapest’s grand Andrassy Boulevard marks an episode that happened in November 1956, when Soviet troops invaded Hungary and brutally crushed the country's short-lived uprising against the Communist Party. Some Soviet soldiers refused to take part in the bloodbath against the Hungarian freedom fighters — and were shot as a result.
