Introduced by David Dimbleby

The appeals for help went unanswered, and 30,000 Hungarians died as the Soviet forces put down the Hungarian revolution in November 1956. Two hundred thousand refugees fled to the West.

On the 20th anniversary of the uprising Panorama has been back to Budapest to talk to those who stayed, about their memory of 1956 and their lives now, in what one Hungarian called 'the gayest barracks in the Socialist camp.' Michael Cockerell reports on the legacy of the revolution.