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 KILIAN BARRACKS Formerly the Maria Theresia barracks, which served as the Hungarian rebel headquarters in Budapest during the Soviet invasion and was partially destroyed by Soviet tanks. After seven days of fighting — and a fleeting glimpse of freedom — the resistance movement was put down on Nov. 4th. Today this part of town has become a middle-class residential area. Above, Beada Biczok and Peter Murvai relax on their terrace |
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Time Capsule
The restless and articulate Hungarian intellectuals who sparked the revolt of Oct. 23, mostly young Communists, were not thinking in terms of Lenin, but of the Hungarian patriots who revolted against the Habsburg monarchy in 1848. The street and rooftop fighters, who took over the struggle from the intellectuals, performed their self-appointed tasks with a valor, pride and gallantry that is found only in the revolutionary traditions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Then, as their strength was exhausted in the battle against modern steel, the fight was taken over by the stolid nerveless men of the factories, inspired by utopian ideals of a democratic workers’ state. The Man of the Year was an amalgam of all these men and of all their qualities.
— Jan. 7, 1957
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