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Janos trying to make his subscribers simp more for Hungary part 54

3 prisoners sit in a cell and are asking each other why they are in. One says: "I'm in here because I insulted László Rajk!" The second one says: "I also insulted László Rajk!" To which, the third one says: "I AM László Rajk."

As a hungarian its really nice to see an american serbian guy with partly magyar ancestry to make such funny but also educational videos about central europe and the balkans, it just warms my heart. Keep it up János! Btw János if u speak hungarian at a higher level I recommend u the videos of Kun Miklós, he is a very good historian who makes really really interesting, but highly educational videos mainly about the USSR and Hungary (fun fac: he is the grandson of former communist leader Kun Béla, and is a well respected intellectual of our post commie time).

Also many Hungarians fighting knew a female friend or relative who was r^p€d back in 1945 by soviet soldiers during the "liberation" of the country. That kind of personal grudge never goes away.

Small note: The Spanish wanted to help the Hungarians with soldiers and nearly 100 aircraft regiments, but the USA prevented this because already at the outbreak of the revolt they indicated to the Soviets that it was not their sphere of interest and that they would not intervene, while they convinced the Hungarians that they would help them and condemned its suppression in the media.

My grandfather spent 2 years in prison after the revolt as he was one the students who took part. If he wouldn't have had some influential friends who gave false testimony for him, I'd probably wouldn't exist today.

Respect from Turkey to Mighty Magyarorszag.

The brutality of the Soviets during the Hungarian Revolt caused many communists in Western countries to cut ties with the Soviets or rethink their ideology altogether. The term "tankie" was popularised around this time by British socialists/communists to refer to any of their members who didn't condemn the actions of the Red Army Edit: I just thought it's interesting that a word used so much online today originated in the 50s

Never ask: -A woman her age -A man his salary -Communists about the blue voting papers in 1947 -Most of the current politicians about which party their fathers were in

As a Romanian, it breaks my heart to learn that Hungary tried to free itself from the USSR so soon and were so close to succeed, yet they failed in the end...but respect and glory to those who fought until their last breath.

Amazing video. Thank you in the name of all the Hungarians who didn't forget history yet.

Once a Hungarian always a Hungarian this video will take all of us back to a violent time, but the live chat will will be more chaotic then this time ever could be

This is the history channel that mixes up memes jokes and the educational things in one video Keep up the good work János!

Amazing video as always. It's a shame that the Hungarian Revolt of 56 is not more widely publicized.

Avanti ragazzi di Buda, avanti ragazzi di Pest, studenti, braccianti, operai il sole non sorge più ad Est! Abbiamo vegliato le notti le notti di cento e più mesi, per l'alba radiosa di ottobre, quell'alba dei giovani ungheresi. Ricordo tu avevi un moschetto su, portalo in piazza, ti aspetto, nascosta tra i libri di scuola anch’io porterò una pistola. Sei giorni, sei notti di gloria durò questa nostra vittoria; al settimo sono arrivati i russi con i carri armati.

Yes, Hungary can be very based indeed. Respect for your people's bravery standing up against the communist filth.

Mentioned Poznań in 1956. Mentioned the happenings under Józef Bem Statue. *Happy Polak noises* God bless Hungary and its heroes!!

As a Pole, it's easy for me to understand their situation. I remember my grandfather telling me about those times and events. Thank you for this material, from the comments of the Hungarians I gather that it was accurate on their part. History is worth remembering. Lots of love and respect for Hungarians

You are more Hungarian than most of the Hungarians I know! Thank you for this absolute gem!

Very nice video! One addition, although most of the country fell by the 11th of November, a small group of guerillas near Pécs, called the Láthatatlanok (Invisibles) held out until the end of November. In December they finally voted to give up the fight and fled to neutral Yugoslavia where they have been still internated but later released.

Fun fact: the Hungarian revolution was the first time where the iconic AK-47 has ever seen action! It was also the first time an insurgent had held one!

Brazil strongest Balkan nation 💪💪💪

Hungarian here! The 1956 October Revolution is still talked about, taught about and remembered to this day and some folks take it very seriously, for the right reason. We had our little taste of freedom for 12 days and got punished for it.

Hello! Hungarian here! So it's really nice to see non-hungarians talk about 56. But I think you missed some little "details" about the event. First. After the soviets regained their power upon Hungary, the rebel of 1956 was banned to talk about. There's even a song made about it (ofc after Hungary became free) where one of the lyrics say: "Beszélni rólad nem lehet" aka "We can't talk about you". There were different iconic images which are still very popular in Hungary These are the: Hungarian flag with a hole in it, while Rákosi and the communist Party were in power (we call it "Rákosi-era") the (again) Rákosi címer (coat of arms) was in the middle of our flag. While 56 happened, a lot of rebels, instead of using the "old" Hungarian (which is just red-white-green) flag while protesting, they just simply cut out the communist Coat of Arms out of the flag. It still resembles freedom. "Ruszkik haza!" Sentence, while protesting a lot of hungarians shouted "RUSZKIK HAZA! RUSZKIK HAZA!" the sentence is simple and self-expalnotary, "Ruszkik" was a "slang" for russians since in hungarian russian means "orosz" cut down the "o" and done. "Haza" means home, as you could see in the beginning "talpra magyar, hí a *haza* ! Itt az idő, most vagy soha!" (Nemzeti dal (national song) -Petőfi Sándor) (this "song" (which is a poem btw) was used during the revolution of 1848 (where we fought against Austria then became the Austro-Hungarian monarch) yeah) SO BACK TO THE THEME "haza" meant home aka "Ruszkik haza" meant "Russians home". As I said, pretty self-expalnotary. These two are the most important and iconic images. We also have a picture where the "Lánchíd" is... Well.. It's in a pretty bad shape. Lánchíd is one of the bridges of Budapest, it connects Buda to Pest. Uh. Yeah. So when it was bombed down, the middle of it fell into the river Danube. There's a lot of movies/songs/poems/books and other types of media talking about this revolution. One of the movies "American Rapsody" (it's pretty sad) is about a hungarian girl, to whom family escapes to America after the revolution, but can't get her to go with them. After her grandma gets arrested, she gets adopted by a couple living in a small village. She grows up there, but after her grandma gets released from prison, she is (BASICALLY KIDNAPPED FROM HER FOSTER PARENTS BY HER GRANDMA) into America. Where she (she's still like 6yo) needs to fit in. It's based on a true story, and I recommend you to watch it. Also there's a diary of a boy who survived 56, and through the diary, we can see how children experienced it. It's pretty interesting. That's it for now! Have a great day/night! Viszontlátásra!

Hey it's the guy from Ohio who is half Hungarian that's in your server, I just wanted to say you did a phenomenal job on this topic. I showed my Great Aunt Mary this video and she said you did a great job shedding light on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. My Great Aunt Mary was 22 when this was taking place. She was married and just had my cousin Tom. She had a choice, stay and continue to suffer under the thumb of Communism, or try to flee to Vienna, Austria to the US Embassy and apply for asylum. She chose the second option. She wanted to take my grandpa who was 11 at the time, but my great grandparents refused. So my Great Aunt Mary, her husband, and my cousin fled, running through mine fields, walking through barbed wire, crawled through tunnels, and snuck passed a handful of Soviet Red Army Soldiers who were equipped with PPSH41 Sub Machine Guns, 1891 Mosin Nagants, the brand new AK-47, and sometimes with German Shepherds. She and her family successfully made it to Vienna, Austria to the US Embassy where they applied for asylum. While waiting to be sent to the US, some Holocaust Survivors approached my Great Aunt Mary and her family to ask what happened. Immediately my Great Aunt Mary and her husband broke into tears. The Holocaust Survivors who experienced similar horror, sympathized with them. My Great Aunt Mary was expecting to be sent to St. Louis, Missouri where she had a distant relative. However the US sent her and 200,000 refugees to Cleveland, Ohio because there was a large Hungarian background present. She and her family lived in a Hungarian American's home in North Olmsted, a suburb of Cleveland. My Great Aunt Mary would work as a maid for a few years. Eventually my Great Aunt, her husband, and my cousin worked up the ranks to become US Citizens. Her and her husband got their own place and started a furniture business in Cleveland called Vegh's. Even when they divorced they still worked together. My grandpa would be forcibly conscripted into the Hungarian People's Army guarding the Iron Curtain. In 1971, my father was born. In 1978, my grandpa escaped, made it to Cleveland, reuniting with his sister, began to set up a better life for himself and my father where eventually my father immigrated in 1987. Although my father eventually left the US a few months after I was born, my brother and I were still close with my Great Aunt Mary and grandpa until he took his own life in 2016. We still keep in touch with my Great Aunt Mary, we love her to death. Without her making the decision to leave after seeing the writing on the wall, it's possible my brother and I would've never been born. We owe her our gratitude for coming here and making it to where future generations of our family can live in a nation with many freedoms and opportunity. It's also her that I began to get in touch with my Hungarian heritage and culture and when I joined your server and met so many Hungarians, and rather than turn me away, they took me in, began teaching me about Hungarian culture that I wasn't taught due to my father's irresponsible decisions. It's with those Hungarians I've met in your server that one day, I along with my older brother will make a trip to Hungary, visit our cousins, grandmother, Aunt Nikki, Uncle Krizstan, find and successfully track down our sister, establish some form of relationship and communication with her, and give our father a visit that he'll never forget. I honestly can't say thank you enough for shedding light on this topic, as well as making a server where I an American who is half Hungarian can finally get in touch with my Hungarian heritage, and culture that I wasn't able to previously. Again thank you and I genuinely enjoy the few moments you and I have talked whether it was down to Earth or shits and giggles. I enjoy your content, and I hope you keep up the good work.

My Nagypapa was there with them, he never spoke about what he did there, only admitted he was in the crowds 3 months before he died. Whatever he did, I am incredibly proud of him and miss him dearly, he escaped the country once it was all said and done, started a new life in the UK. I can happily say that I am a proud Hungarian Citizen, and am proud of all the men and women who took part in this revolution. Hajrá Magyarok 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺

hungary: west help for fuck sake un: uh you know, what the ussr does is bad and all that, but.....

Let's go ! A new video about Hungary ! I can't wait for it !

This literally warms my heart, I'm glad you covered this, as I believe this is one of the most important moments in Hungary's history. Erre koccintok egyet Jani!🥂

Thank you for making this video. educating those people about this almost 'forgotten revolution', your hungarian is simply marvelous and i had tears in my eyes the whole way through when you 'A magyarok istenere eskuszunk, eskuszunk, hogy rabok tovab nem leszunk!' your hungarian videos always touch my heart, keep up the good work!

I certainly hope you're gonna mention the "Blood in the Water" waterpolo match, aka "The blood bath of Melbourne".

The Full Version of The Nemzeti Dal (Thats in the trailer) Talpra magyar, hí a haza! Itt az idő, most vagy soha! Rabok legyünk, vagy szabadok? Ez a kérdés, válasszatok! - A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk! Rabok voltunk mostanáig, Kárhozottak ősapáink, Kik szabadon éltek-haltak, Szolgaföldben nem nyughatnak. A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk! Sehonnai bitang ember, Ki most, ha kell, halni nem mer, Kinek drágább rongy élete, Mint a haza becsülete. A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk! Fényesebb a láncnál a kard, Jobban ékesíti a kart, És mi mégis láncot hordtunk! Ide veled, régi kardunk! A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk! A magyar név megint szép lesz, Méltó régi nagy hiréhez; Mit rákentek a századok, Lemossuk a gyalázatot! A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk! Hol sírjaink domborulnak, Unokáink leborulnak, És áldó imádság mellett Mondják el szent neveinket. A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk!

My grandmother was a vet student at the time in Budapest and she helped to take care of the wounded, as well as smuggle medical supplies from Austria. Once she described saving a young protester who got shot in the stomach, other than that she doesn't talk about it much. She just said "awful times, I hope you'll never have to experience anything like this".

Great video, thank you for bringing Hungarian history into the spotlight.

on behalf of the romanian nation, i would like to apologise that our country helped the soviets in supressing the hungarian revolution , by facilitating the movement of soviet troops from romania to hungary and by detaining after the revolutionary leaders on romanian soil, i'm sorry we did that

"Én most bemegyek, oszt megölöm a polgármestert méévan!?" -Gerő Ernő, 69BC-420AD decolorized

That moment, when a guy from the internet teaches *Hungarian* history more accurately, than hungarian history books themselves... 😭

I learned about this when I visited Budapest last summer. This video will be a banger for sure

I was lucky enough to listen to somebody at a school presentation who actually took part in the uprising. He told that the whole thing was very chaotic, he was basically going to work, saw the people gathering and just joined in the fighting. Saw his neighbour being ripped apart from soviet bullets and many of his close friends either got shot or imprisoned. What a tragedy it was.

Proud to be Hungarian

My dad was a freedom fighter. He had some crazy stories! He would never go back for fear the Soviets were still looking for him. He passed away in 2021. He was an amazing human

Im looking forward to the premiere already, looks really great

My grandparents escaped Hungary around 1950, and it’s interesting for me to understand more about what happened with more details ( since they didn’t want to explain in detail to our family, which I understand)

Thank you for covering this topic! Even though my family wasn't fighting in Budapest, but partaking in the organisation of a Revolutionary Council in Nyíregyháza after the revolution was crushed the ÁVH took my great grandfather and got tortured for 2-3 weeks. He was probably a luckier one as he survived. It's really a shame that the Suez crisis tension was still in the air and because of that the West didn't even try to diplomatically intervene at least. But speculations aside. Thank you for making this video thorough! It always brings a tear in my eye to hear about this.

Thank you, János. Hungary and it's people are often overshadowed. We made many great things that people attribute to America or other big countries who could fund these great people. I do not blame the people though, I have made peace with the fact that we are not very well known as a nation. Thank you for properly representing the achievements of the people that came before me and my fellow Hungarians.

Dude your hilarious, I learn a little bit, I shake my head sometimes, it's all good fun with your videos, even ironically when there is a solemn message or subject, keep up the good work

Great video. At 18:47 that's my great uncle Josef in the black coat and beret.

Man keep up the good work! This type of content teaches, educates and entertains and as a hungarian I have to say you have a good pronunciation.

Im Hungarian and its good to know that people from a different counrty knows about the history of Hungary

Ngl this is looking epic, and I'm looking forward to it

Köszönöm a videot János! If anybody interested the movie from the clips is Children of glory (Szabadság, szerelem) 2006. It was made for the 50th anniversary of the refvolution.

Not gonna lie, i cried watching this video, thank you for spreading the history of our nation!

my grandpa was part of the revolution, he was a soldier and helped the revolutionists, got captured by the reds, imprisoned in the Buda castle prison, what was heavily guarded and almost impossible to escape, and he escaped, sadly he died before history interested me more and could not ask him personaly what happened, my grandma told me this also interesting fact, many buildings in Budapest still bear the bullet holes from 1956 revolution

Im from Hungary and we talk about 1956 a lot

Imre nagy was my relative, he was my grandpa's grandpa's cousin. he was born 15 min car drive from us and we got the same family name etc and my dad told me alot of details. I am indeed proud of Imre and i wish this revolution didn't end the way it have.

Thank you for covering this topic! As a Hungarian, I feel proud! :D

This is the best video so far. Amazingly done Great editing

as a hungarian this vid. felt damn good, keep it up dude

Wait. The economy is not collapsing? ECONOMIC MISMANAGEMENT!!!!!!!!!

Love your videos, just made my day that you made a video of our history, keep up the good work and thank you!!

Well I'm hungarian, I've known the whole thing before, but it is outstanding how you used the hungarian meme culture. Based.

Some Transilvanian people also took the initiative to revolt in Cluj and other transilvanian cities, my grandgrandmother was one of them.

Awesome, this video and your channel are the best I have watched/found in a long time

My grandfather fought in the 56 revolution. According to his stories it was even crazier then you would imagine.

The thing I love most about this channel aside from the great content is the fact that you actually pronounce hungarian names properly. It honestly drives me mad when english speakers try to pronounce hungarian names so this is a breath of fresh air xd

Thank you for making this video, it got some tears in my eyes towards the end... Although every kid grows up in Hungary to know the happenings of the revolution of 1956 quite well (since it's one of the most important, proud and bitter part of our history), this was such a very-very well put together and perfectly summarised video about the big picture and the political background of the events, that it was very informative for me even as a Hungarian. I feel like I've got to understand/comprehend this part of the history of my motherland better than anytime before... I'm really not too much of a nationalist or patroit or anything, but thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this video, and educating the folks of youtube about the history of my motherland so respectfully.... Köszönöm! Love from Hungary!! ❤️🤍💚

Love learning learning about Hungary from you. Greetings from England.

You are a better hungarian shitposter than any hungarian shitposter. Truly a masterpiece

Even though I’m Romanian I wish they beat the USSR because no one should go throw that communist hell

Ironically, that poem in the intro was written for a different revolution a hundred years ago which was also crushed by russian (reinforcements specifically, notable as the revolution was against the Habsburgs)

Thank you for this detailed and objective video. Also, I love how you put effort in saying hungarian names and pronounce them with fidelity.

I can watch the video I've been waiting for on my birthday. Fucking awesome

Thanks for always making this great videos!

Thank you for this video 🙏... My Father was from Budapest and survived the Soviet siege of Budapest in WWII along with his mother and brother ... My Uncle, grandmother and family lived thru the '56 revolution as well ... Heroic Hungarians..., & all of the people in Budapest 💯🙏... God Bless them all 🙏...

Your best editing work yet mate gj

My Russian great-grandfather fought in this uprising on the Soviet side. He was a translator in the Soviet Army and knew some Uralic languages, including Hungarian. Unfortunately, he hardly talked about this event. Later he was sent to serve in Estonia, where I live today

Even though I missed live, great work on the video

Thank you brother for the beautiful sum up

Really appreciate these videos. Hope all is well on your end of the economic spectrum

Your hungarian pronouciation is really good, it sounds almost perfect

Imagine if they would have had only 10% of the military support and attention Ukraine receives now...

köszönöm hogy megcsináltad ezt a videót (thanks you for this video) :)

Thank you for this wonderful video, János!

Thhis was hilarious. As me a Hungarian person watching this was insane. You did such a good job. Keep up the good paste. :)

My dad's dad was fighting in the revolution against the Ruszkis, then he spent a decade in prison, my mom's dad was a member of the communist party, they weren't friends at first, but when it came to get some drink, they became almost like best friends. Maybe that's why they were always wasted. Thank you for the video.

Thank you for covering this topic, it too often gets neglected!

My Gruncle is the guy at 0:39 holding his fist up on the tank. He's the guy smiling in the front of the tank behind the turret. Badass dude.

We Austrian wher so lucky we manged to conivnce the Soviets to leave by 1955 we should have done more.

man i love this channel and as a hungarian seeing a lot of your videos about my country it is awesome. The fact that you talk Hungarian so nicely apart from being serbian american is surprising

It's really cool to see these kinds of content!

Great video, keep up the good work!

Woke up with plans to do a bunch of stuff around the house. Looks like I am waiting 20 minutes. Hajrá Magyarorszag!!!

As a Hungarian, I love your content! Great vid :)

Thank You for this video💖

Thank you for the video 🙌

Amazing video, minor correction at 12:00, the Soviets didn't bring new units in the country but rather used locally stationed troops. Other than that, it is an exceptionally great video about the event, with amazing pronunciation, thank you very much!

Franco wanted to send 200k spanish men to Hungary but the USA didn't let him.

Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland together forever💝

Great episode 👏🏻