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Around 2 am on October 24, the first Soviet tanks entered Budapest and positioned strategically outside the parliament building as to bring down the revolution. Meanwhile more Soviet troops penetrated key positions in the city. On the radio, Nagy called for end to violence and promised to initiate political reforms abolished three years earlier. Despite all efforts for a peaceful resolution of the riots, when Erno Gero ordered a Soviet tank to fire upon unarmed peacefully demonstrating protesters in Parliament Square on October 25, the fighting escalated. <ref>Hungarian Revolution of 1956: First shots - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956</ref>The demonstrators tried to seek refuge in the ministry of agriculture building but they weren’t allowed in and around 800 died that day in what is now referred to as the “Bloody Thursday”. After the Soviet public massacre, the revolution was unstoppable. The Soviet troops and their AVH cohorts continued to fight against the revolutionaries until 28th October, when Moscow ordered the Soviets to retreat from the city. Communist regime was widely denounced by Hungarians with Hungarian Workers’ Party discredited and Erno Gero was forced to resign as First Secretary, with Janos Kadar replacing him.

In order to prevent any further escalation and in attempt to calm the infuriated masses, Nikita Khrushchev initially decided to order Soviets retreat from Budapest. Оn October 28, Nagy announced an immediate and general cease-fire over the radio and, on behalf of the new national government declared that a multi-party system was to replace the communist single-party dictatorship as well as: that the government would assess the uprising not as counter-revolutionary, but as a “great, national and democratic event”; an unconditional general cease-fire and amnesty for those who participated in the uprising; negotiations with the insurgents; the dissolution of the AVH; the establishment of a national guard; the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops from Budapest and negotiations for the withdrawal of all Soviet forces from Hungary.