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Parliament Square MassacreBloody Thursday | |
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Part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | |
Location | Kossuth tér, Budapest, Hungary |
Date | 25 October 1956 |
Target | Hungarian demonstrators |
Attack type | Massacre |
Deaths | Between 100 and 1,000 (see text) |
Perpetrators | State Protection AuthoritySoviet Army (according to some accounts) |
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The Parliament Square Massacre, also known as the Kossuth Square Massacre, Kossuth tér Massacre, or Bloody Thursday, was an armed attack by elements of the Communist Hungarian secret police force, the State Protection Authority (ÁVH), on an unarmed crowd of demonstrating civilians during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. It took place on Thursday, October 25, 1956 in Kossuth tér, the large square facing the Hungarian Parliament Building, and was perpetrated by ÁVH snipers atop the Ministry of Agriculture and other adjacent buildings and Soviet troops in the square.
The massacre, the bloodiest atrocity of the Hungarian Revolution and once of the bloodiest in postwar Europe [cite], galvanized support for the Revolution among ordinary Hungarians. It