1948 - 1956 was one of the saddest periods in the history of Hungary. The communist state's machinery of terror functioned perfectly but the introduced centrally directed incredibly bad functioning economic system did not. The communist party functionaries explained this: "Comrades, on the socialist road to communism some mistakes were made." The real stories described in this book were horrible but today, more than 50 years later, the stupidity of the system is quite amusing. In that scary world, the terror touched everybody. On the other hand the interesting thing was that in those fearful...