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Hungary.

Erich Lessing was in Poland, but history was being written in Hungary. So on 24 October he took a plane back to his native Vienna, then drove to Budapest. He had only just crossed the border when he photographed rebel soldiers taking down Lenin's portrait at city hall in Györ. "Even if Soviet domination lasted another thirty years", Lessing would comment fifty years later," this was the prelude to its end".