Forradalom! Or, if Revolutionaries had iPods...

Fifty years ago today, the Red army invaded Hungary and put an end to its attempted democratic Revolution, with Soviet troops who had been told they were going to Berlin to fight fascists. The moderate Communist government, whose reformism had gained popular support, was toppled in favour of a regime more favourable to the Soviet Union, which had yet to distance itself fully from its Stalinist past. The event proved a watershed in the political image of the USSR, with many Western Marxists turning away from its foreign policy after its second invasion in three years.

"I am not one of those who think that there can be a compromise, even one made with resignation, even provisional, with a regime of terror which has as much right to call itself socialist as the executioners of the Inquisition had to call themselves Christians."

Albert Camus

A Soviet Citizen's Popular Dissatisfaction Mixtape:

Graham Coxon - Freaking Out
Snowden - Anti-Anti
Regina Spektor - Poor Little Rich Boy (live)
The Indelicates - New Art For The People
The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life
Two Gallants - Las Cruces Jail
The Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me
The Immediate - Don't You Ever
Myp et Jeep - Enough is Enough
Juniper (Damien Rice + Bell x1) - World is Dead
Ash - Meltdown
Patrick Freyne - Why Are Things So Hard?
Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
Star Belgrade - Disconnect Master
Bell x1 - Man on Mir (Alias Mix)
Bloc Party - Banquet
+/- - Trapped Under Ice Floes
Petr Novak - Knihovna
Josh Ritter - Girl In The War
Bertolt Brecht - Die Einheitsfront
¡Forward, Russia! - Twelve
Margot & The Nuclear So-and-Sos - Barfight Revolution Power Violence
Ton Steine Scherben - Keine Macht für Niemand (Live video)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Communist Daughter
Yann Tiersen - Summer 78 (Goodbye Lenin OST)

There.