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In October 1956, students and workers took to the streets of Budapest to protest at Soviet rule in Hungary. The demonstrations turned violent and for a while, the revolutionaries were in control, before being brutally repressed. In 2010, Ed Butler spoke to one of the rebels, Péter Pallai. Witness History is a short BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through first-hand testimony and archive. Each weekday, in around nine minutes, we revisit one moment that helped shape the world and hear it through the voice o...
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. stories and big ideas come together. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, this is Witness History from the BBC World Service. If you're a regular listener, you have great taste, and you know the drill, you can skip the next few seconds. But if
you're new here, welcome. I'd just like to tell you a bit more about us. We're the podcast that brings history to life by hearing from those who are there. Episodes are only nine minutes long and they come out every weekday. So if that sounds like something you'd like to listen to, why not hit subscribe and turn your push notifications on.
Today we go back 70 years to when students and workers took to the streets of Budapest to protest against Soviet rule in Hungary. The demonstrations turned violent and for a while the revolutionaries were in control. In 2010 Ed Butler spoke to one of those involved in the uprising.
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