Abstract:
The leadership of Chinese Communist Party were very changeable in their attitude to the Hungarian Incident. On the one hand, according to the five principles of peaceful coexistence, they asked the Soviet Union to loosen its control on Hungary in politics and economy, and even in military affairs, and made the latter deliver the 30th Declaration, which was to later prove just a deceitful trick to cover Soviet troops’ further military action. On the other, considering the Warsaw Treaty Organization as a whole, the Chinese leadership firmly required the Soviet Union not to retreat its troops so as to reserve socialism in Hungary. So being the case, it doesn’t follow to say whether China or Soviet Union played a decisive role in deciding to send Soviet troops to invade in Hungary a second time. What sped up and enhanced Soviet change in decision was British and French invasion in Egypt on October 30, 1956, a sudden change of the world situation. In order to make a full use of the Sues Crisis in terms of the opposition of the two camps, Soviet made the decision of solving the Hungarian Incident by force.
