Hungary's communist collapse was interesting, to say the least. To many outside observers, they seemed to be most liberal and prosperous of all the eastern bloc countries. This was only an outside facade, and even though Janos Kadar had kept the Hungarian populace in peace since the uprising in 1956, there was still discontent with his antiquated way of doing things. This discontent, however, was almost entirely within the party. Kadar's boring peace made it so that, even when there was criticism, unlike Poland and Czechoslovakia there was no organised, political criticism. Therefore, change had to come from within. The younger party members ousted the elder Kadar, replaced him with Karoly Grosz, and proceeded to pass a series of legislatures that allowed for free assemblies, and then finally a transition to complete democracy.