Laszlo Suhayda

Survivor of Soviet communist Hungary

Laszlo Suhayda was a Hungarian clergyman and activist who played a key role in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He was born in 1927 in Hungary and grew up in a devoutly Christian family. Suhayda became a priest and began to speak out against the Soviet occupation of Hungary, which had begun in 1948. He was arrested and imprisoned several times for his activism, but continued to speak out against the regime. In 1956, Su...