Bela Kiraly - A leader of Hungary's 1956 revolt against the communist dictatorship died Saturday at the age of 97.
About once a decade during the cold war one of the USSR's satellites tried to throw of the yoke of Soviet oppression. After a few weeks the Soviets sent in the tanks to stop the revolution.
A recent Strategy & Tactics magazine featured a game on the uprising - here is a link to it on Board Game Geek. I'll have to break out the game and see I can change history. In the real world after the uprising failed Kiraly fled the country and ended up teaching military history and Brooklyn College. Maybe he used to play a few wargames himself. May he now RIP.
Link on SF Gate
His Wikipedia article (Says he attended Columbia too, yea! and served as advisor to the Brooklyn College Military History Club, maybe he really was a Grognard too!)
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