About 45 years ago, 200 students and 14 faculty from Sopron University were welcomed by the University of BC Faculty of Forestry.

The Hungarians had fled after the failed revolution in 1956.
They were among the rebels against the Soviet oppression.

UBC welcomed them, to set up a Sopron Faculty of Forestry in exile, as a division of the relatively new faculty at UBC.

Just another story of heroism, refugees, and generosity. Stories that should be read by the bureaucrats, statists, and xenophobes broad-brush bashing foreigners during the current concern over terrorism - and by the leftist apologists and activists in Canada and the US, who conveniently overlook the tyranny of marxism while they bash free countries like the US.

(While attending UBC in the mid-70s, I knew a student who had escaped from Hungary. She, her parents, and a brother took a train but got off before the border. They walked a long distance in winter conditions, until stopped by a soldier. Until the soldier spoke they did not know they had reached freedom (in an adjacent country).)