ABSTRACT
On 4 November 1956, Soviet forces launched a major attack on Hungary aimed at crushing the spontaneous uprising that had begun on 23 October, twelve days earlier. Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy announced the invasion to the nation that morning in a terse broadcast; hours later, Nagy himself would seek asylum at the Yugoslav Embassy in Budapest while his former colleague, János Kádár, who had been flown in secretly from Moscow, prepared to assume power. When Nagy finally agreed to leave the embassy, he was immediately arrested by Soviet security officers and flown to a secret location in Romania. Hungarian resistance by that time essentially had been destroyed. 1
