Over the past years, writer Albert Wass has become known to an ever expanding range of readers and we can say also becoming a literary-political idol. His literary standard and works can be questioned but his commitment to extreme right, hungarist political views cannot.

In 1956, Fulgencio Batista, who enjoyed the backing of the US, has condemned the soviet intervention in Hungary. Dictator of Venezuela Pérez Jimenez and his counterpart in Dominica Rafael Leonidas Trujillo have offered generous help to emigrants regarded by them as freedom fighters and revolutionists. Even Anna Kéthly objected that the Hungarian emigration maintains links with the Franco regime.

Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati