On November 11, 1956, the Hungarian uprising was suppressed in the capital city of Budapest by the invading Soviet occupation forces. The streets of Budapest were littered with the corpses of murdered rebel Budapest citizens and Soviet soldiers.

   On November 11, 1956, the Hungarian uprising was suppressed in the capital city of Budapest by the invading Soviet occupation forces of General Secretary Kinita Khrushchev. The streets of Budapest were littered with the corpses of murdered rebel Budapest citizens and Soviet soldiers. The citizens of Budapest were unnerved and looked around at the cruelty of the situation.

　On October 23, 1956, citizens in the capital Budapest staged a massive peaceful demonstration demanding democratic reforms. The demonstrators visited a Budapest radio station and demanded that their demands be made public. The Hungarian regime ordered the army to open fire on the crowd. Hungarian soldiers handed rifles to the demonstrators, who were able to occupy the building, setting off the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The demonstrators demanded that Imre Nadji be appointed Prime Minister of Hungary. The Central Committee of the Hungarian Workers' and People's Party approved it that same night, sparking an uprising of anti-Soviet rebellion that lasted from October 23 to November 11. Naji declared that Hungary would withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and become a neutral country. Shortly thereafter, Soviet tanks and troops invaded Hungary and crushed the uprising. The fighting continued until November 11, resulting in the deaths of approximately 2,500 more people.

　The Hungarian uprising broke out on October 23, 1956, and the uprising lasted about 12 days before it was crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on November 4, 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded, and nearly 250,000 Hungarians fled the country. The suppression of the Hungarian uprising killed about 2,500 Hungarians and about 700 Soviet soldiers and caused about 200,000 Hungarians to flee abroad. 3:00 a.m. on November 4, Soviet tanks entered the city of Budapest along the Pest side of the Danube River. About 15,000 resistance fighters fought in Budapest, with the heaviest fighting occurring in Zepel, a workers' stronghold along the Danube. Many of the insurgents were armed, with weapons provided primarily by the Hungarian army, which took the side of the insurgents. Soviet troops were also attacked in civilian neighborhoods and fired indiscriminately. Budapest bore the brunt of the bloodshed, with approximately 1,569 civilians killed. About 53% of the dead were laborers, all under the age of 30. On the Soviet side, about 699 were killed, 1,450 were wounded, and 51 were missing. After the Red Army took Hungary from Nazi Germany on April 4, 1945, the Soviet military occupation continued until 1991. 1949, Hungary became a Communist People's Republic. The new Communist government saw buildings like Budapest Castle as symbols of the old regime, and in the 1950s the palace was demolished and its entire interior destroyed.