"No foreigner had been informed that Imre Nagy had even come back from exile, leave alone been tried and executed.
The news cast a dark shadow over the foreign comrades. In their own bourgeois or colonial countries they had so gloriously, so often led indignant marches demanding justice, higher wages, women's rights; they had stormed government buildings, burnt buses and newspaper offices with such fearless abandon. But here, in a more advenced communist state, after weeks of secret investigation, secret trial and secret conviction their comrade of yesterday, with whom they had shared toasts and slogans, had already been hung and buried, without a whimper from the people of this battle scarred city.