Hungarian Uprising. 60 years on

... Revolution). Because no state in Europe today espouses communist ideology, the Hungarian Uprising does not carry any valuable lessons for government leaders and ordinary people in the 21 st century. However, reducing the events in October—November 1956 to the multiple abuses of totalitarianism may obscure the main message. The confrontation between the socialist and capitalist blocs may be past history, but popular discontent has not gone away, it merely took on a modern form. Witness the case ...