"Forward Youth of Buda(pest)"; Hungarian: Előre budai srácok) is an Italian anti-communist song.
[1][2] Written by Pier Francesco Pingitore and composed by Dimitri Gribanovski, it commemorates the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and is a widespread and well-known song in Italy, having some presence in Hungary as well.
"Avanti ragazzi di Buda" was written by Pier Francesco Pingitore in October 1966 to commemorate of the tenth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and in response, according to him, to the "institutional silence on the event".
The song immediately enjoyed great success within the newborn il Bagaglino, later spreading among Roman universities.
[8] In September 2019, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who was then a guest of a demonstration of the political party Brothers of Italy, defined the song as "the most beautiful one ever composed about the 1956 revolution".