Witness the refusal to allow the Pope to attend celebrations of the Polish millennium held earlier this year. The fate of those brave young patriots who defied the mechanized power of the Red army in Hungary is not yet fully known. But we can be certain that it was an unpleasant one. as the accounts of the mass deportations which followed the Soviet intervention would indicate. The tales of horror of the police state which existed with the sanction of the Soviet Union before the revolt in 1956 have been admirably recounted in the book by James Michener. "The Bridge at Andau." There have been some changes in the economic management policies of some of the states fashioned in the Soviet image. However. other forms of what might be called liberalization have not appeared.
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