Word: buda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport Hungarian troops are all over the place. And Hungarian troops certainly are not the only ones around the city. The Soviets are still there. The invaders' tanks and heavily armed soldiers no longer man the streets and bridges. They are camped now in the hills of Buda and not far from the American legation in Pest. Only a few are seen on the streets. But their presence is felt-most directly by arrests. More than 100,000 people are estimated to have been arrested since November. The visitor finds that old friends are simply not around any more...
...ruthless use of the secret police, reconstituted under the command of Colonel Laszlo Matyas, strengthened by Hungarian army officers, but still basically made up of the old semi-moronic AVH professionals. The sadists of 60 Stalin Ut (old AVH headquarters) are busier than ever, helped out at a Buda jail by the Russian MVD, which has its own interrogation procedure for VIPs. Scores of Freedom Fighters, including youths and girls, have been brought before summary courts and sentenced to hanging-slow strangulation, old Magyar style...
...magnates continued to dominate the land: one-third of Hungary's rich acres was owned by 1,000 wealthy nobles. In 1941 Horthy took his country, crying for its "lost provinces," into the war alongside Hitler. By 1944 Horthy wanted an armistice: the Germans seized him and occupied Buda. He was later released by the U.S. Seventh Army from Nürnberg prison, now lives in Portugal, and at 88 has recently written his autobiography. Once again, as the Germans withdrew in 1944, conquerors swept down from the East to overrun the Hungarian plain, to rape, to pillage...
...Budapest, "the city is usually quiet and no Hungarians are abroad after the 9 o'clock curfew. Late last Saturday night and early Sunday morning it was different. The sporadic flourish of small arms fire and an occasional artillery shot echoed and re-echoed from the hills of Buda. Reinforcements of Soviet tanks were moving into the city. They came because Budapest streets were littered on Saturday afternoon with leaflets calling for a 'total strike' in the name of the Budapest Workers' Council...
...debate on Hungary was postponed. Said o'ne: "Up to that time people had been watching from rooftops hoping to see U.S. planes arriving. After that everybody just quit." Some 1,500 rebels holding out in the ruins of the Royal Palace high on Buda Hill surrendered a highly defensible position. After a moving appeal for help from President Eisenhower the day after election ("If during his presidency he would stand by the oppressed, a blessing shall fall on him"), Radio Rakoczi said its last word: "Soviet tanks are attacking . . . The battle continues with unflagging violence...