During the uprising of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, a member of the Hungarian Communist secret police (ÁVH) was shot dead by Hungarian rebels in summary execution in the capital Budapest.

　　Members of the Hungarian Communist secret police (ÁVH) were shot dead by Hungarian rebels in summary execution in the capital Budapest during the uprising of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution ÁVH secret police officers held up their hands to protect themselves. The debris-lined sidewalks were littered with the dead and critically wounded bodies of the security police officers. 

　Hungary's State Protection Service, known as “Ávos,” the Hungarian political police (ÁVH: Allamvelmi Hatosag), was created from 1945 to 1956. between 1945 and 1952, it enforced much cruelty, brutality, and many political purges. the 1956 Hungarian revolution During the ÁVH, a group of rebels tracked down and killed suspected ÁVH officers and informants. As the revolution began, a crowd of thousands stormed the police headquarters in Budapest, standing on the roof of the iconic communist building and shouting slogans. The police chief, fearing for his own life and that of his officers, allowed the crowd to enter the building and bring in any political prisoners they wished.

　The Hungarian Revolution, which erupted from a student movement in the capital Budapest on October 23, 1956, was followed on October 29, 1956, when the Dudás militia attacked the secret police headquarters in Budapest and massacred the AVH inside. Hungarian citizens organized revolutionary militias to fight the ÁVH, and local Hungarian communist leaders and ÁVH policemen were captured and summarily executed. The fighting was fierce and relentless, and even when ÁVH personnel, surrounded and out of ammunition, surrendered, they were shot to death by insurgents; the bodies of ÁVH officers were hung upside down in trees, spit on by the crowd, and repeatedly beaten.

　　Soviet troops invaded Hungary on November 4, 1956 to suppress the Hungarian revolution and fought the Hungarian revolutionaries until the Soviet victory on November 10. 26,000 people were arrested and brought before Hungarian courts; 22,000 were sentenced and imprisoned; 13,000 were interned; and 229 were executed. The repression of the Hungarian uprising resulted in the deaths of 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet soldiers, and about 200,000 Hungarians were forced into political displacement.