Budapest, l'insurrection, "la victoire d'une défaite"

This documentary proposes a reconstruction of the events in Budapest, such as they were experienced by the masters in the Kremlin, and by the Hungarians themselves. It provides an account of the decision making processes in Moscow. It also demonstrates that Kroutchev wanted to show at all costs that he would not give in, and that he was not a "liquidator" of the Soviet empire. Witnesses, former leaders or employees, of the KGB, the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Kremlin, who have agreed to telling us how they experienced this first post-war crisis in communism. This documentary also shows the manner in which the events in Budapest prefigured the "languid disease" which was to corrode "socialism in practice", leading it from one crisis to the next, all the way until to the fall of communism 35 years later.