Kossuth Lajos Square
Open riverside plaza scarred with bronze-marked bullet holes from a nineteen fifty-six massacre.
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This guide to Kossuth Lajos Square in Budapest centers on October 25, 1956, when thousands gathered here to demand freedom from Soviet rule and Soviet tanks rolled in alongside the crowd, seeming to side with them. You'll hear about the teenage girl overheard telling a stranger there was nothing to fear, and about the gunfire that suddenly tore through the square from several directions at once. It follows the decades-long dispute over what really happened here, and why the bronze-studded wall near number eleven was left exactly as the bullets found it.
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