What is the importance of the Hungarian Revolution?
BK: Well I believe that it was the beginning of the end. I remember I met in ‘fifty seven … … in person, he spoke very good English. I spoke with him at Columbia University, he had lectured, and after that we met on a, at a friend’s. And he told me, you are the reason I was in prison, he told me, of course, in a friendly manner. Because I stood beside you, I had to go to prison. Anyway, he wrote a book, he knew what Communism is, he was the number two man in Yugoslavia, he was who was a general in this Titoist partisan army from the part of Montenegro against the Nazis, and he fought like a lion all during, in other words, not by words of mouth, but by, by deed he fought for the establishment of Communist through, after that, he practised in peacetime, in other words, he knew, what he was talking about, he was not just an outside scholar. And in his book, there are of course, two famous books, there are several, but … conversation with Stalin, and the other, his memoirs, what is
