After 1956, when the heroic children of Budapest mortally wounded Communism, the rulers of the successor states used the uprising as a pretext to speed up the forced assimilation of their Hungarian minorities and things got even worse for Europe's largest minority.
西元一九五六年後，匈牙利首都布達佩斯的青年們，雖一度英勇抗暴，重創共產主義，但卻使得捷克斯洛伐克、南斯拉夫、羅馬尼亞等這些新興的共黨國家統治者，得以鎮壓境內叛亂之名，變本加厲地強迫同化其境內少數的匈裔同胞。