[Stonewall Jackson]

Today is the 49th anniversary of the beginning of the Hungarian revolt against the Soviet Union. Unfortunately the Hungarian civilian population had been disarmed years earlier, and their heroic efforts at throwing off the yoke of communism were brutally crushed.

[TomSmedley]

Unfortunately the Hungarian civilian population had been disarmed years earlier, and their heroic efforts at throwing off the yoke of communism were brutally crushed.

My uncle served in the European theater, and was among those American GIs who rounded up civilian weapons, and lined them up in the street, so that the tanks could roll over them. (the day after he wept over a magnificent shotgun, the policies were changed, so that GIs could take confiscated guns home as souvenirs.) Our troops prepared the way for Stalin's thugs.