![Hungarian refugees in Buchs, 1956.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-fluchtlinge-300x225.jpg)
Fleeing to Switzerland
The war between Russia and Ukraine is driving people westwards. But Switzerland is an old hand at helping refugees from Eastern Europe, as a look back at the past shows.
![Ukrainian refugees arriving in Poland.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/Fluechtlinge-Ukraine-300x204.jpg)
![Lenin on the cover of Schweizer Illustrierte, December 1917.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/2019/12/Lenin_SI-218x300.jpg)
![The Russian-Swiss Association (Russlandschweizervereinigung) sold badges to collect money for poverty-stricken returnees from the Tsarist regime, around 1920.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/russlandschweizer-200x300.jpg)
TV documentary about the 1956 uprising in Hungary. YouTube / BBC
![Hungarian refugees arriving in Morges and Bière, 1956.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ankunft-ungarn-300x248.jpg)
![Demonstration in Bern against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/demo-cssr-300x230.jpg)
![Fleeing from Kosovo, 1999.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/Flucht-aus-Kosovo-300x200.jpg)