After the bloody suppression of the uprising some 200,000 people leave Hungary.  Ruthless reprisals against the insurgents begin and 24,000 people become imprisoned. Imre Nagy is treacherously arrested and executed after a secret trial. The Hungarian society loses all hope for a political change and until 1989 Hungary experiences no serious social unrest.  

   In Poland the action to collectivise agriculture is abandoned and victims of political persecution are rehabilitated. Soviet military advisers leave Poland. However, Władysław Gomułka fails to fulfil social expectations. The process of transformations is halted. Censorship gradually becomes stricter and in 1958 the workers’ self-government is liquidated. The social movement in Poland becomes stifled, too, although this takes place gradually and without bloodshed.