Sixty years ago, Otto von Habsburg’s article “The Effects of Communism on Cultural and Psychological Politics in Eastern Europe” appeared. Published a decade after the bloody suppression of the Hungarian Revolution, the essay affirms his conviction that no ideology can permanently eradicate the human longing for freedom.
We present previously unseen photographs from November 1956 from our collection. These amateur photos, taken in downtown Budapest, depict the days of the revolution from a unique perspective.
Fifty-five years ago, in 1968, the streets of Prague were witnessing a similar scene to that of Budapest in the autumn of 1956. Otto von Habsburg followed the events in Czechoslovakia as closely as he had followed the revolution in Hungary twelve years before. The former heir to the throne, like other analysts, made a comparison between the two events early on.
The document published below is an assessment of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 written by Otto von Habsburg in 1966.
