Béla Vándor

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page

Béla Vándor doctor, fighter of the 1956 Revolution, " Pest Guy ". His father was deputy head of the Hungarian National Bank.

According to his own account, 1956. On October 24, he joined the Tompa Street group at the age of fifteen. Later he joined the group formed at Hőgyes Endre Street. The opponents were known as "Colos", and during the fighting, the legend was "bullet-proof" because their clothes were repeatedly pierced but never damaged.

He took part in the demolition of the Stalin statue and then fought with petrol bottles on the Üllői street against Soviet tanks striving towards the city center.

"I am a loyal person, I am not happy to talk about petrol bottles thrown into Soviet tanks. I don't like to remember that either because I am a doctor and my primary task is to save life. In this case, one loses this kind of value judgment and sees only the tank that attacks our country and not the man. Then we were shaken when we saw the burning soldiers jumping out of the tanks, ” he told the Hungarian nation in an interview in 2004.

On November 4, he went home after a general attack on the Soviet army, but on November 9, he went down the street with a pistol and captured the two Soviets. They were planted on a tank and shot a Soviet soldier in his leg. He was then handed over to the spies who were tortured by asking for their names and addresses. He invented fictional names and titles. For a week he was in Uzhgorod in prison, then with his 51, sixteen, comrades, he was returned to Hungary on 25 November and handed over to his parents.

According to his narrators, the captives tortured the prisoners and executed more.

He was not imprisoned, but after graduation in 1956 he was not admitted to university for three years.

For 22 years after the university, he was a doctor of the Honvéd Hospital, from 1989 he was a doctor at the district.