Causes:
1. Radio Free Europe
Operating from its main headquarters in Munich RFE had been operating since 1950. RFE'S different style of broadcasting gave it a higher audience appeal than radio stations such as the BBC and Voice of America who were too straight laced in their approach. A reliable poll of Hungarian refugees taken in 1956 would reveal that 79% of them had regularly listened to RFE.
In some quarters, RFE'S Hungarian broadcasting was held responsible for encouraging Hungarian resistance, and investigations were initiated by the United Nations, the West German government, a U.S. congressional subcommittee, and the Council of Europe. Although RFE was cleared of provoking the uprising, it was criticized for giving the impression that Western aid was forthcoming and also inciting the Hungarian listeners towards revolution with their irresponsible statements, gratuitous advice, and errors in political judgment.
Radio free Europe was responsible for a large number of broadcasts's aimed directly at inciting revolutionaries to fight and organize groups of people willing to fight. Even at the time of the revolt Hungarian revolutionaries, most of them workers and students were urged not to quit, being told "not to hang up their weapons and keep on fighting" On Monday, October 29th, the military expert of RFE reportedly said of the ceasefire order of the Nagy government: "Imre Nagy and his supporters want to revise and modernize the Trojan horse episode.…
