A Hungarian border guard on the Austro-Hungarian border near Szentgotthárd wearing a cap which displays the red star after the Soviet crackdown on the freedom fighters. He agreed to the photograph, but refused to give his name. He carries a 7.65 millimeter (approximately 32-caliber) Soviet made submachine gun.
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
On guard-- communist sympathising Hungarian border guard has resotred the red star to his cap after the Soviet crackdown on the freedom fighters. He agreed to photograph, but refused to give his name. He carries a 7.65 millimeter (approximately .32-caliber) Soviet made sub-machinegun. Photo was tken on Nov.6, 1956, just insdie the border near the southwest Hungarian small town of Szentgotthárd, 40 miles east of the Austrian city of Graz.