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by cret ce with hine gun
For veral days the Freedom Fi te held their own a nst un ual
d ey develo d ingenious new meth s of ti- k warfare. Teenagers put lts of silk, ed in oil, in the street When the tanks were unable to move in the me , they would run out and smear m on the windshields.Colonel Pal leter, nt to break up a ion in the army ack was impr d by the Freedom Fi ters' convictions that he ined them
e Co unists retaliated v ly, firing into crowds of unarmed civilian But the ople only ught harder. In M ow, Premier Khrushchev r that continued fighting could s rk up in in other East Euro an countri Gero was moved from of ce, Nagy was ven rmi ion to t up a new gove ment, including non ommunists, and the Ru ian tanks gan to withdraw.
The ople danced in the street Nagy, though a Communist, was also a patriot He w this conc ion by the Kremlin as a chance to gain inde­ pendence r Hungary. On to r he announced that he would hold free elections, which would have en Hungary's fi t under Communist rule. at evening, Maleter, im and shaken, told Na "I have to re rt that viet armored units are invading Hun ry in l ge num rs ..."
Nagy refu d to ck down e next day he prepared two declara­ tion that Hungary would leave the Wa w Pact (the alled treaty which gave the viet Union control o r the Easte Euro an countries) and that Hungary would declare its neutrality. Knowing that Hungary alone couldn't withstand Communisto pr ure, he called on United Nations cretary-General Hammarskjld for a istance. But the UN. paid no attention to Nagy's plea Just the day fore, French and English planes had m d Suez in an action against Egypt, which had threatened to bl k off the Suez CanaL All the attention of the world turned to the Middle st, away from the valiant Huh s struggling des rately for freedom
At 4 AM on Novem r 4, Ru ian tanks gan an all ut attac The Nagy gove ment i ued a frantic broadcast "Pl tell the world of the treacherous at ck against our struggle for li rty.Our tr ps are al­ ready engaged in fighting.Help! Help! Help!" No one listened The Ru ians i ued an order: onquer or exterminate." The Hungarians ro to new heights of heroism. Thirty-two students formed a barricade around a statue of St Imre, patron int of Hungarian youth, which st at an im rtant street ncture. Armed only with su machine gun Molotov c ktails and