The author summarises and analyses historical lessons from the 1956 workers councils. He shows that present-day falsifications and silence about the history of workers councils is related to the fact that the councils set up in factories and on the shop-floor aimed transforming state ownership to social ownership also rejecting the restoration of capitalism and fought against attempts bringing back private ownership.

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.