When the Hungarians stood up against Communist rule in 1956 should the West have been more actively involved in aiding the Hungarians?
Eisenhower talked about "Rolling Back Communism" but when the time came he sat back and let the Soviets crush the Revolution.
As the Soviet Bloc fell apart 33 years later was it best not to get involved as it avoided a confrontation with the USSR and perhaps 10 million Hungarians freedom wasn't worth a war?
What do you think?

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In my opinion the Western governments were not willing at the time to become directly involved with Soviet Bloc. Proxy wars were one thing, direct confrontation with the Soviet Union was another.

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-Patrick

Without the Suez crises who knows what would have happened....

Suez Crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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i think given the climate of the time, although not 'proper' cold-war era, it was unfortunate that the west did not intervene. be that as it may however, had involvement of the allied nations been a factor, i strongly feel military and diplomatic options would have been exhausted, possibly leading to another war...

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