Letter from the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Hungary, Andras Hegedus, to the Council of Ministers of the USSR requesting Soviet troops

 


Delivered: Written 24 October 1956, forwarded by Yuri Andropov on 28 October 1956. 
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Budapest, October 28, 1956

In code
Top Secret
Not to be copied

Sent from Budapest Urgent

I hereby forward a letter from the Hungarian
Government to:

“The Council of Ministers of the Soviet Socialist
Republics

Moscow


On behalf of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary I appeal to the Government of the Soviet Union to send Soviet troops in order to put an end to the riots that have broken out in Budapest, to restore order as soon as possible, and to guarantee the conditions for peaceful and creative work.

24 October 1956
Budapest
Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Hungary Andras Hegedus”
28.X.56 [28 October 1956] Andropov