A nation rose up, and a reformer was carried into power in a single day.

On October 24, 1956, the day after a mass uprising began in Budapest, the reform communist Imre Nagy became Hungary's prime minister.

His government brought in non-communist politicians, dissolved the ÁVH secret police and promised democratic reforms. On November 1, Nagy announced that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact and asked the UN to recognize it as a neutral state. On November 4, Soviet forces invaded and removed him from power. After a secret trial, he was executed in 1958.

Why it still matters: in June 1989, an estimated 200,000 people attended his reburial in Budapest, in the same year communist rule began to fall across Eastern Europe.

Is it worth taking a stand you know may cost you everything?

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