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Your source confirms that MI6 aided the fascists. The west took advantage of far-right elements and aided them, they didn't invent new far-right elements. CIA propaganda outlets like Radio Free Europe stoked grassroots resentment against the communists, combined with MI6 training and arming former members of the Arrow Cross Party. This strategy of taking existing levers and massively tilting the scales and facilitating them, forcing more radical action, is the way color revolutions typically play out.
Reality aligns with the communists, any honest journalist would be found guilty of such bias.
Former far-right elements made up a portion of the communist government and millitary, as this was only a decade out from World War II. The fact that they were retained doesn't mean they weren't fascists, or that they had pulled a full 180.
Downplaying the infestation of anti-semitic pograms described as especially bad in Hungary.
Anti-semitism was punishable by death penalty in the USSR, this is largely Red Scare fearmongering. In fact, the soviets were accused of being jewish supremicists, hence the hysteria around "Judeo-Bolshevism." The USSR was the opposite of anti-semitic.
Linking a right-wing anti-communist think tank for the majority of your sources, and cherry picking tragic mistakes in order to justify killing communists is awful. Planned economy aided food production, and fascists were jailed, that doesn't justify murdering leftists.
The CIA did not spark the revolt, but they assisted with it, as did MI6.
The west has a proven track record of supporting liberalization and undermining socialism, which is what Imre Nagy was doing, along with allowing the lynching of Jews and communists.
Overall, your goal here seems to be to downplay antisemitic lynchings, paint lynching communists as a good thing, and try to pretend that the soviets were brutal monsters, all while linking right-wing anti-communist propaganda outlets.
Silly Cowbee, they said there were only minimal lynchings, Jewish people were only prosecuted to a marginal degree. Don't forget how there's multiple whole wikipedia articles on how Stalin is ebil.
Yea that one bugged me a lot. There were literal nazis let out of prison, and lynchings of Jewish people and communists. Trying to downplay the anti-semitism was sad to see.