1956 Remembered

Wroclaw pays tribute to Hungarian heroes of 1956
Polskie Radio 11/4/06

A monument to the heroes of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 has been unveiled in Wroclaw, south-western Poland. City Mayor Rafal Dutkiewicz recalled during the ceremony the various forms of assistance which Poles offered to the Budapest insurgents in 1956. He said that Soviet troops invaded Hungary to crush the Hungarian people's dreams of freedom and democracy. The Hungarian ambassador to Poland Mihaly Gyor recalled that a workers' revolt in the Polish city of Poznan in June 1956 was an inspiration for his countrymen fufty years ago.