Unfortunately. their sacrifices were not leading to victory. Preoccupied with the twin Middle East crisis. the West rent by dissension over Middle East policy. neither the United States Government nor the governments of Western Europe extended any diplomatic or military help for the new Hungary that declared its withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and clamored for the recognition of its neutrality status. The end was oppression and massacre Russian style by open military aggression. the arrest of the Government leaders. the death of 35.000 freedom fighters in Hungary and the deportation of another 60.000 Hungarian youths to the death camps of the Soviet Union. And this occurred 3 years after Stalins death. unless someone might wash the sins of the Communist leaders away saying that only in Stalins time did such things occur. Today. when we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution we do not find a Communist monolith anymore. polycentrism has grown among the Communist nations as well. witness the ChineseRussian and various subfeuds within the bloc.
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