Two Hungarian border guards at the Austro-Hungarianian border near Szentgotthárd chat with a communist collaborator. The guard on the left, a communist sympathiser, who agreed to be photographed but refused to give his name, carries a Soviet-made submachine gun.The guard on the right, Lieutenant Kanyó, is a Communist who pretended to support the Hungarian freedom fighters when they held the upper hand but switched back when the Soviets arrived to suppress the revolution.
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Communist watchdogs-- just inside Hungary at the Austrian frontier, two Hungarian border guads chat with a Communist collaborator. the guard at left, a Communist sympathiser who agreed to be photographed but refused his name, carries a 7.65 millimeter (approximately .32-caliber) Soviet made sub-machinegun. The guard at right, Lieutenant Kanyo, is a diehard Communist who pretended to sympathise with the hungarian freedom fighters when the held the upper hand but switched back when the Soviets cracked down. Photo was taken Nov.6, 1956, near the small Hungarian town of Szentgotthárd, in southwest Hungary 40 miles east of the Austrian city of Graz.