A very informative account of the major events in the Hungarian Revolution in the late Fall of 1956. The Hungarian Revolution, although crushed ruthlessly by the Communist government in the former USSR, nonetheless initiated a climate which over the next few decades lead to a freer society and a freer economy in Hungary. The 'Pan European Picnic' in the Spring of 1989 - in Sopron, Hungary at the border with Austria - was the ultimate spark leading directly to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. (At the 'Picnic', some 300 East Germans were allowed by border guards to leave the Communist Bloc and, via Austria, go to West Germany.)