Abstract
This study strives to examine the attitude of the French Communist Party (PCF) towards the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 focusing on the way this uprising was presented in the PCF propaganda. The PCF leaders refused Khrushchev's de-Stalinization and thus criticized the liberal changes in Poland and Hungary.
Consequently in autumn 1956 they condemned the uprising in Hungary which they branded as a "counterrevolution" and welcomed the Soviet intervention. According to the PCF, this "counterrevolution" was initiated by the "fascists" and "imperialists." The PCF leaders presented their interpretation of events mostly in the communist press.
Their newspaper articles described an atmosphere of fear and pogroms committed against the Hungarian communists. However, not every French communist believed this propaganda and some of them, mainly intelligentsia, refused to accept the official party line and left the party after the Soviet intervention in Hungary.