Original sentence: Despite agreeing to a ceasefire, the Politburo moved to quash the revolution.Impromptu councils wrested local government control from the communist party, and demanded political changes.Pro-Soviet communists and ÁVH members were often summarily executed or imprisoned; as former prisoners were often summarily released and armed.The new government formally disbanded the ÁVH, declared its intention to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and pledged to re-establish free elections.Thousands organized into militias, battling the State Police (ÁVH) and Soviet occupation troops
Edited sentence: Despite agreeing to a ceasefire, the Politburo moved to destroy the revolution.Impromptu councils wrested local government control from the defunct communist party, and demanded political changes.Pro-Soviet communists, ÁVH members and their sympathisers were often summarily lynched or imprisoned; as former prisoners were often summarily released and armed.The new government formally disbanded the ÁVH, declared its intention to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and pledged to re-establish multiparty democracy.Thousands organized into militias, battling the hated ÁVH and Soviet occupation