1956 - Budapest - Global Citizenship Summer School (sitios de interés)

On 23rd October 1956 fifty thousand people gathered at the statue of General Bem which stands beside the Danube. It was to those assembled that Peter Veres of the Hungarian Writers Union read out a proclamation of independence, to which the Techies added a sixteen point resolution demanding everything from the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country to the right to sell their uranium deposits on the free market. National songs and mantras were sung, and the communist coat of arms was torn from the Hungarian flag.