On November 1, 1956, the head of the Hungarian government, Imre Nagy, announced the country's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact Organization and appealed to the world community to protect sovereignty. This was followed by the entry of Soviet troops and the bloody suppression of the Hungarian uprising. February wind of change of the XX Congress of the CPSU Khrushchev's report caused downright tectonic changes in the socialist camp. Supporters of the forced transition to socialism had to make room at the imperious Olympus...