No, this is not a photo montage! This is a simple photo shooting of touristy U.S. marine sergeants getting slightly out of hand when the ever amorous Sgt. Zahary suddenly spots an elegant young Hungarian lady passing by on the now dismantled Kossuth bridge at the Southern tip of the Parliament in early 1956. It's [...]
What an amazing story the Los Angeles Times ran about Steve Hideg, an ordinary man who fled Hungary in 1956 to fulfill his dream as a jazz drummer. He is still as penniless as he was before his escape, but in between he has had 60 marvellous years and at age 85 he is still going [...]
Summer, 1956. The Buda Castle is still quite in ruins: windows of the Palace are missing; the dome, destroyed during the 1945 siege of Budapest, is not yet rebuilt. In a few months, much of the city will be destroyed once again by an invading Soviet army. Curiously, just before the revolution broke out, in [...]
The heat today in Budapest is unbearable. Let us refresh with a funny summer photo from the countryside, taken by the wife of an American diplomat in the mid 1950s during one of the rare countryside trips. This friendly Hungarian peasant lady and her husband hosted the Americans one afternoon and showed them around in [...]
Rare color photo of the U.S. Legation in Szabadság tér in the spring of 1956, taken by a Marine sergeant from where Ronald Reagan's statue now stands. This was the building the Communist government of Hungary most wanted to penetrate during the Cold War, and they did have some success sometimes. The AVO also kept [...]
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