Force the Russians out?
Your mean in '56?
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RANT alert: This a very OFF TOPIC RANT that has no place here, the only reason why it is posted is to answer an offhanded comment with some seek of giving a decent answer
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That was is the bloodiest mess you can think of in our history.
The reason is that quite a few of important figures (mostly kommunists) are still alive, so they could be either bullied or theatened regardless their true role, if their involvement was announced.
The other is that it is a national holy day. If you dare say a word that would cast somewhat bad light on the "event"
(the fact that the kommunist party forbid even mentioning of the revolution led to certain "funny seeming things" for forigners: it was called the event, later on the uprising and only recently did people have the courige to call it revolution (recently as around '90) )
, you'd marked the black sheep of the country.
Furthermore several political factions and parties ruthlessly exploit the holy day as their own propaganda fleshing out it to fit their deeds.
Finally the fact that most tend to slip over is that the main aim of the revolutionary gorvenment was simply separating from the Eastern Block and not the outright abolishment of socialism.
Imre Nagy prime minister and martyr was a true communist during the whole ordeal.
His role as a politician going against the sovjets made him a national hero.
Then there is the problem of how some interpret the heoism of "the people".
Murderers and other criminals were also released during the revolution along with unrightsously politicallyt convicted people. The former IMHO did not do too many heroic deeds.
The so called bloody sovjets you speak of were stationed in the city for quite a while and they refused to butcher the revolutionaries.
Later forces from the counrtyside had to be brought in to quell the rebellion - which was in fact quite bloodless until the said occupation.
And there is the old issue when someone opeed fire at the mass in front of the Parliament - where they were befriending russian soldiers as of the time...it is suspected that the snipers were on a nearby roof - there identity or alignment is still topic of speculations.
So I have to say that '56 was a civil attempt to bring about a democratic change in the system, that the political leadership had to accept.
The soviet intervention - which is understandable, since if Hungary was allowed to quite, everybody else would follow in suite - shattered these dreams.
Meanwhile the West is also to be blamed - the Free Europe radio spoke volumes about the support of the USA and their plans to liberate us...
Of course it was just that much - propaganda.
The very attemt was ill fated at the time, but the recent change in US-CCCP relations lead some to believe that the winds of change are already blowing a song of a happier world...apparantly the CCCP had other plans, their rigidness ran to deep to realise the eventual fall of the system.
If the said fall was realised and accepted earlier much of the later Balkan conflicts along with the complete destabilisation and economic demise of Eastern Europe would have been less severe.
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The '56 revolution is controversial topic.
IMHO it was not a cool act on our behald - "kicking out Russian..."
