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OCR: In 1956 Sandor Kopacsi was Budapest's chief of police. On October 23 when the Hungarian Revolution erupted he was ordered by the Soviets to suppress In dramatic shift of allegiance Kopacsi sided with the students protesting the Russian occupation. Ivan Serov, the head of the KGB promised he would hang He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but eventually managed to come to Canada Sandor Kopacsi's memoirs are the only blow- -by- -blow insider's account of the Soviet Union's brutal reaction Hungary's heroic bid for national independence Kopacsi was at the center 01 events man who might have become minister in the Hungarian government had he backed the Soviets instead of defending his own people impri isonment Cone event gover rnment

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