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"Russkies Go Home" Graffiti on Lenin Boulevard

Fortepan/Pesti Srác1956-10-01

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Budapest, Hungary

A ransacked bookshop on the corner of Lenin (now Teréz) Boulevard in 1956. The shop's windows were smashed, its books burned on the street, and the demand "Russkies Go Home" painted in the former window display.

Photo from Fortepan, an online archive of twentieth-century amateur photography, initiated by OSA in 2010.

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