"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

It was also the United States of America that incited the Soviet Union to
crush the rebellions in Eastern Europe in 1956 and 1968, since the
interests of the lofty financial circles demanded it. The Swedish red writer
Jan Myrdal revealed in the periodical Folket i Bild (No. 20, 1979, p. 31)
that "the American State Department, through Swedish diplomats, before
the invasion in 1956, asked the Soviet Union to re-establish order in Hun-
gary". Before the 4th of November 1956, the State Department sent an
explanatory telegram to the Communist leadership in Moscow, in which it
was made clear that the American government does not look with favour
upon governments unfriendly to the Soviet Union on the border of the
Soviet Union. ("Congressional Records", 31 st of August 1960, p. 17 407.)
Several Hungarian historians admit that the U.S. government wanted to
put down the Hungarian anti-Communist revolt. The American propa-
ganda also claimed that Hungarians began murdering Jewish Communists
and that it was therefore time to intervene. That was a false statement,
however. Not even the Jewish executioners within the Communist security
service were killed. In fact, not even the hated Jewish chief of the security
police, Gabor Peter (actually Benjamin Ausspitz), suffered that fate.
Voice of America, meanwhile, encouraged the Hungarians to revolt.
They were convinced that the United States would come to their aid. This
was a mere play for the gallery, like Allen Dulles's speech about liberating
Hungary from Communism. The United States calmly watched when
Moscow violently and cruelly put down the revolt. 1945 people were
killed in Budapest and a further 557 were shot in the province. 20 000
people were injured. {Dagens Nyheter, 1st of December 1990.) Moscow
used 1500 tanks and 150 000 infantry troops. 200 000 people fled from
Hungary. 40 000 were arrested.
In contrast, both the United States and Moscow condemned British and
French aggression during the Suez crisis in the autumn of the same year.
Washington also gave the Kremlin the green light before they marched
into Czechoslovakia. Zdenek Mlynar, who was a member of the Commu-
nist Party's Politburo in Czechoslovakia in 1968, revealed after his escape
to the West that Leonid Brezhnev had told the leaders in Prague at the end
of August 1968 that the American President Lyndon Johnson had assured
the Soviet Union that the United States of America would not interfere
with the Soviet aggression in Czechoslovakia. (Zdenek Mlynar, "Nacht-
frost" / "Night-frost", Cologne/ Frankfurt am Main, 1978, p. 301.)
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