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With its statues and plaques venerating Hungarians who resisted Moscow’s military might, Corvin Alley may seem a natural setting to sympathise with Ukraine.
The circular passageway in central Budapest – nowadays a busy conduit to a nearby shopping mall – experienced some of the worst fighting of the 1956 uprising, when local teenagers since immortalised as the “Lads of Pest” (Pesti Srácok in Hungarian) and lionised by the current government fought the Red Army with primitive weapons in a doomed effort to overthrow Soviet-imposed communism.