No Miracle of Bern

What if heavily favored Hungary had not been upset by West Germany in the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final?

I was thinking about this oddly enough - but as part of another TL (Hungary deserved a 50s World Cup IMO so I let butterflies give them 54) - this might be pessimistic but I can see a '54 World Cup win excellerating Hungarian nationalist sentiment, possibly leading to an earlier Revolution, and the Mighty Magyars suffering for it afterwards.

I imagined Budapest celebrations getting rowdy, developing into anti-Soviet riots. Or it could just be a lovely drunken party and nothing happens til '56
 
Couldn´t it actually go in different direction and butterfly the Revolution of ´56 away. Propably with the best soccer-team in the world, life would be bright enough in Hungary that there is no need to die under soviet tanks. Actually the return of the defeated team led to the first violent protest in red Hungary.
There is actually an older thread about this POD, where I said, that this could lead to no hungarian revolution, which could lead to a neutralist goverment comes to power in West Germany in 1957.
 
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