On this day in history, 1956:
...the start of the Hungarian Revolution, in which the heroic people of Hungary rose up against their Soviet oppressors and by force of arms established freedom for a brief but golden span of days before the U.S. government's behind-the-scenes betrayal and Communist treachery and slaughter overwhelmed them.
A date you (and I) SHOULD have known.
HT: LACatholic
. . . and quaking Ike was forced to cancel another golf date to work on an alliance with the USSR and Nasser against Israel, Britain, and France in the Suez war.
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