<P> During this time, the Hungarian Army was divided as the central command structure disintegrated with the rising pressures from the protests on the government . The majority of Hungarian military units in Budapest and the countryside remained uninvolved, as the local commanders generally avoided using force against the protesters and revolutionaries . From 24 to 29 October, however, there were 71 cases of armed clashes between the army and the populace in fifty communities, ranging from the defence of attacks on civilian and military objectives to fighting with insurgents depending on the commanding officer . </P> <P> One example is in the town of Kecskemét on 26 October, where demonstrations in front of the office of State Security and the local jail led to military action by the Third Corps under the orders of Major General Lajos Gyurkó, in which seven protesters were shot and several of the organizers were arrested . In another case, a fighter jet strafed a protest in the town of Tiszakécske, killing 17 people and wounding 117 . </P> <P> The attacks at the Parliament forced the collapse of the government . Communist First Secretary Ernő Gerő and former Prime Minister András Hegedüs fled to the Soviet Union; Imre Nagy became Prime Minister and János Kádár First Secretary of the Communist Party . Revolutionaries began an aggressive offensive against Soviet troops and the remnants of the ÁVH . </P> <P> Units led by Béla Király, after attacking the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, executed dozens of suspected communists, state security members, and military personnel . Photographs showed victims with signs of torture . On 30 October, Király's forces attacked the Central Committee of the Communist Party building . Hungarian Communist politician János Berecz, in his government - sponsored "white book" about the Revolution, referred to how rebels detained thousands of people, and that thousands more had their names on death lists . In the city of Kaposvár, 64 persons including 13 army officers were detained on 31 October . </P>

Causes of soviet invasion of hungary in 1956