5 December 1956: The women,accompanied by children, wanted to honour those who died fighting the invading Russian armyBudapest, or December 4
Thirty-thousand Hungarian women and children forced their way by sheer weight of numbers to the tomb of Hungary’s unknown Soldier here to-day to commemorate the second Russian attack on Budapest a month ago to-day. There were some clashes: one woman was wounded by a Russian bullet and another was saved from arrest by a dozen of her countrywomen. The call for the demonstration went out by leaflets scattered in the streets of the city final night. This morning thousands of women converged on the memorial in Heroes’ Square shortly before 10 a.m. Some led children by the hand,others pushed them in perambulators. All were bent on laying flowers on the tomb in memory of those lost in the fighting against the Russians.
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Source: theguardian.com