#anti-soviet

Dr. Imre Kovacs, center, pastor of the First Magyar Reformed Church, addresses a group of some 200 Hungarian sympathizers outside the Soviet Union's United Nations embassy, 68th Street and Park Avenue, on May 4, 1957. The group picketed for two hours without incident, in contrast to their demonstration on April 27, which resulted in the arrest of two picketers. Some of the May 4 pickets carried black flags and black cloth-draped Hungarian flags in mourning for Hungarians killed in November, when a revolt in Hungary was suppressed by the Russians.

🥀 The April 9 tragedy (also known as Tbilisi massacre) refers to the events in Tbilisi, when an anti-Soviet demonstration on central Rustaveli Avenue was dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 21 deaths and hundreds of injuries. 

Hungarian-Americans march up Fifth Avenue on November 4, 1956 in what was called a “March of Mourning” for those dead in the failed revolt against the Soviet Union. Many carry signs, such as the one in foreground, “Communist murderers get out of Hungary.” The marchers are at 57th street, walking south on Fifth Avenue.