The 1956 Revolution In Hungary And The French Position Towards It

Abstract

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, against Soviet control and hegemony, one of the major crises of Soviet President Khrushchev's term, sent the Red Army to Hungary, to crush the revolution and keep the latter within the Soviet sphere of influence, when Hungary objected to this situation, it launched demonstrations led by university students. The Soviet Union responded by sending tens of thousands of its troops to Budapest, to end the demonstrations that broke out against the Soviet Union. As for the position of the French government and its motives regarding the Hungarian issue of 1956, it was kind of mysterious. Apparently, the French government intervened to achieve its own interests at the time. The timing of the Hungarian Revolution was appropriate for France to distract European countries from their intervention in the Suez issue.