The streets of Budapest have played stage to many a political drama in modern times. In 1956 Soviet tanks rumbled through the Hungarian capital to crush an uprising against communist rule. By 1989 however, Hungarians were again fighting back and among the first to punch a hole in the Iron Curtain as a wave of revolutions across eastern Europe resulted in the end of the communist era. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16175784.Hungary__39_s_slide_to_the_dark_side/?ref=rss