BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – A former Hungarian communist interior minister was taken into custody on Monday, suspected of war crimes for his responsibility in the fatal shooting of dozens of civilians ...

The Cominform had stated with blunt finality: “There is no place for the [Roman] Catholic church in the Balkans.” Hungary was not strictly Balkan, but it was in the Cominform orbit. Last week ...

Mayo Clinic carillonneur James Drummond’s regular Tuesday evening recital on Oct. 16, 1956, included a Hungarian folk song, “Magasan Repul A Daru.” The song, the title of which translates as ...

Ever since his short-lived freedom from Communist jailers during last autumn’s Hungarian revolution, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has been living in the U.S. Legation in Budapest. Mindszenty, forced by ...

Vladimir Lenin stands with Karl Marx and notable Hungarian communist leaders behind the austere brick walls of a unique, if not surreal, statue park museum up in the hilly southern suburbs of Budapest ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The diary of Gyula Csics for October 23, 1956, starts with a 12-year-old boy tending his grandfathers' graves and ends with him listening to the sounds of a revolution which ...