Original sentence: Despite Cold War rhetoric by the West espousing a rollback of the domination of Eastern Europe by the USSR, and Soviet promises of the immenent triumph of socialism, national leaders of this period as well as later historians saw the the failure of the uprising in Hungary as evidence of a stalemate
Edited sentence: Despite Cold War rhetoric by the West espousing a rollback of the domination of Eastern Europe by the USSR, and Soviet illusions of the triumph of socialism, national leaders of this period as well as later historians saw the the failure of the uprising in Hungary as evidence of a stalemate