To Sándor Kopácsi (Miskolc, Hungary, 1922-Toronto, Canada, 2001) his father, a turner, introduced him from a very young age in the office and in politics, where he was a social-democratic and union leader. In 1944, when Hungary occupied the German troops, it fled of the city with all its family to join to the movement of resistance Mokán. Freed Miskolc by the Red Army, he entered the new police forces and joined the Hungarian Workers Party (POH, communist). In 1952 he was appointed chief of the Budapest police and later appointed deputy. At the beginning of 1956 he raised his voice against Mátyás Rákosi, then top leader of the Party and State, in a meeting of members of the POH in the police, thus adding to the "reformers" of the party. After the outbreak of the Revolution on October 23, 1956, he refused to have his forces fired at the rebels and ended up joining the insurrection. On November 3, with the respect of the insurgents, he was democratically elected the second head of the newly created National Guard. Arrested on November 5, 1956, he was tried along with Nagy and his collaborators in June 1958, being sentenced to life imprisonment. Amnestied in 1963, his work life was not easy and the secret police did not cease to harass him. In 1975 he was allowed to emigrate to Canada, where his only daughter, Judith, lived. There, after several manual labor, he ended up retiring in 1987 as an employee of cleaning a hydroelectric plant in Toronto. After the fall of the Wall, he returned to Hungary in 1990 with his wife and fatigued companion, Ibolya, and was appointed general, although retired. He died in Canada in 2001 during a visit to his daughter.