但在1980年代，匈牙利的民主变革要求反对派必须找到某种新的斗争策略：靠革命运动是行不通的，1956年那场苏联入侵证明了这点；内部改革也是行不通的，因为苏联阵营各国势必会像1968年针对捷克斯洛伐克那样插手干预，以挽救整个苏维埃制度。
But democratic transformation in Hungary required an opposition strategy throughout the 1980’s: revolution wouldn’t work, as the Soviet invasion in 1956 showed. Nor would internal reforms work, because the Soviets would intervene to save the system, as they did in 1968 in Czechoslovakia.