What was Stalins policy towards neighbouring nation states during the Cold War?
Hi, Alex. I hope you’ve already found it out yourself that Stalin was dead for three years (died in 1953) by the time of the Hungarian revolution of 1956. To see the Soviet side of the story I would recommend you to read Nikita Khrushchev’s (the Soviet leader who authorized the Warsaw Pact countries interference) memoirs called in the English translation “Khrushchev Remembers”. The Hungarian events were to a great extent initiated by Khrushchev himself, by his “secret speech” to the XXth party congress of the USSR in 1956 where he denounced Stalin’s “cult of personality” and started de-Stalinization. BTW the Soviet ambassador to Hungary at that time was Yuri Andropov, future head of the KGB and short-time Soviet leader in the beginning of 1980s.
