Video: '(04/11/1956) - Soviet Tanks choke Hungarian Revolution'

(Sunday, November 4, 1956, 3:00 a.m. Central European Time; during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956) — Soviet tanks penetrated Budapest along the Pest side of the Danube today to end the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the policies caused by the government’s subordination to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Video: 'The 1956 Hungarian Revolution by the BBC' (Nov. 4, 1956, at 18:42)

The troops fought Hungarian revolutionaries until Soviet victory on Nov. 10, 1956; repression of the Hungarian Uprising killed 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet Army soldiers, and compelled 200,000 Hungarians to seek political refuge abroad, mostly to Austria.