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Two World Wars, One Failed Revolution

How to Invent a Country by BBC

Jul 3, 202541:43Society & Culture

Misha Glenny asks how the losers of two world wars, which drastically reshaped Hungary's borders, tried to fight off Soviet tanks on Budapest's streets. Produced by Miles Warde

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Two World Wars, One Failed Revolution is an episode from How to Invent a Country by BBC. Misha Glenny asks how the losers of two world wars, which drastically reshaped Hungary's borders, tried to fight off Soviet tanks on Budapest's streets...

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