MY REVOLUTION Recollections of the 1956 Revolution* Part II “IF THE RUSSIANS RETURN, WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT” János Martonyi “Student meeting! Tonight at 7.00 p.m. at the latest, we want to respond to the call of the Budapest university students. Let’s make a free, truly democratic, independent university life! Everybody should come!” Szeged, 16 October 19561 “JOIN

Hungary’s future will depend on its citizens, but who will those citizens be? What will be their mindset, who will teach them, how will they remember our past? Outside Hungary’s borders, about five million people live throughout the world, who are Hungarians or have a Hungarian ancestry. Hungarians, due to