Meanwhile, in Hungary, anti-Soviet feeling surged. On October 22 students, intellectuals, and factory workers gathered at the Technological University in Budapest and adopted a wide-ranging list of demands, including the removal of Soviet troops and the replacement of the pro-Moscow leadership with Imre Nagy, a former prime minister who was identified with liberalization policies. Protesters also demanded multiparty elections, freedom of press and assembly, and the prompt removal of the massive statue of Stalin that still stood in central Budapest. A mass demonstration the next day led to an
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