In the autumn of 1956, Poland was ready to explode, and in Hungary an anti-Communist revolution overthrew the Stalinist party and government; General Kava pleaded restraint to the Czechoslovakian Communists and, utilising the control he had of the secret police, the StB, managed to deflect the volatile emotions being expressed throughout the country away from revolution, but he did not do that out of respect to the reforming First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He did it to save a repeat of the deaths of party leaders and political heads that happened in the other countries where bloody revolts had taken place. His opinion had not changed; he hated Khrushchev enough to want him dead.
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