a) Thread context was communist poland being a vassal of the USSR, whose policy was subordinate to the CPSU. These examples highlight that policy was not in fac

a) Thread context was communist poland being a vassal of the USSR, whose policy was subordinate to the CPSU. These examples highlight that policy was not in fact independent in these countries, and, when significant deviation occured, soviet military invasion was a consequence. Whether the uprisings / deviations are good or bad is secondary to this point. b) As for 'facism': show me the 'facism' in the key documents: HU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demands_of_Hungarian_Revolutionaries_of_1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demands_of_Hungarian_Revolutio... CS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_a_human_face https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_a_human_face (yes, wikipedia scholarship, better sources welcome) while I have no doubt that facists would piggy-back on to any anti-communist movement to seize a moment of opportunity, framing either of these as 'facist' at their core is at best poor analysis. Even hard-core bolsheviks would differentiate betwean 'bourgeois-democratic reactionaries' and 'facists' since being clear in distinction is necessary for proper argument/strategy.