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...Carpathian basin where Arpad had made his home a millennium earlier. Its predominantly Magyar population of 8,354,400 was 75% Roman Catholic, 20% Calvinist, and the balance Greek Orthodox, Uniate, Lutheran and Jewish. In 1919, amid the anarchy of defeat and humiliation, a disciple of Lenin named Bela Kun, freed from a Russian prison camp and sent back to Hungary on a false passport, was put at the head of a reign of Red Terror that lasted almost four months...
...parasitic host of Hungarian expatriate Communists. In the first post-war election held on Nov. 4. 1945, the Communists came in a bad third, with only 800,257 votes to stack up against the 2,688,161 votes of the democratic Smallholders Party, which was led by Bela Kovacs and Ferenc Nagy...
...giving it freely to the workers were cut off, and all food was channeled through government distribution centers. Puppet Premier Janos Kadar tried desperately to get support behind his regime. He got nowhere with Imre Nagy (see above). And he was making little progress with ex-Secretary-General Bela Kovacs of the Smallholders' Party, or with the Peasant Party's Istvan Bibo. During one of Radar's bumbling appeals over Radio Budapest, studio onlookers saw Deputy Premier and Defense Minister Ferenc Munnich snatch the script from the Premier's hand and denounce him as "an idiot...
...wretched regime working, the desperate Kadar was ready to promise almost anything. Free elections? He was willing to take a chance on that. Multiparty government? "Find Bela Kovacs [onetime Secretary General of the Smallholders Party] for me, and I'll gladly cooperate with him." He was already negotiating with representatives of the Peasants' Party. Imre Nagy? "Bring him back, because this job is a burden to me." Only one thing Kadar could not promise, for it was not in his power. He would not order the Red army to quit Hungary...
...Social Democratic Party each found its voice. Out of the disorganized Communist Party a new Hungarian Socialist Workers Party with national Communism as its aim was formed by Party Leader Janos Kadar. A Christian "front" was in formation. As if by a miracle, old party leaders appeared. Bela Kovacs, sturdy Smallholders secretary, recently released after nine years in Soviet prison camps, joined the government because "we must establish national unity." The Smallholders' exiled leader Ferenc Nagy had come as far as the border, but had been turned back to Switzerland by the Austrians. Tough old Ferenc Farkas, onetime National...