Basically, this uprising happened because the people of
Hungary were unhappy with the communist government that was running their country. They
were especially unhappy with the fact that the Soviet Union was basically telling their
country what to do. They wanted more freedom for their country to act independently of
the Soviet Union.
The Hungarians felt that they actually
had a chance to get more freedom. This was because the USSR was going through a period
of deStalinzation after Stalin's death. It appeared that the Russians were going to be
more open and do less to try to control other
countries.
The Hungarian rebels were really fairly
unorganized militias. They rose up and started fighting against the government's
forces. It might have had a chance of success except for the fact that the USSR decided
to send its army into Hungary to crush the rebellion.
In
the aftermath of the rebellion, the Soviet Union's power over all of Eastern Europe was
no longer questioned--all communist countries would pretty much be forced to do what the
USSR told them to do.
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