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...have helped him depose Malenkov as First Party Secretary. When the showdown with Beria came, it was Zhukov who ordered the army's tanks into the heart of Moscow to paralyze Beria's police. Elevated to Defense Minister, Zhukov was the man who ordered Soviet tanks into Budapest ("liquidating fascism," he called it) to crush the Hungarian rebellion for Khrushchev. Last June, when the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich forces mustered a majority in the Presidium, it was. Zhukov who saved Khrushchev by throwing the army's support to him. As a reward, he was named to the Presidium...
Julius V., a sophomore, was a member of the revolutionary committee formed in his dormitory at the University of Budapest, and had fought the invaders in the streets, until he was warned that the Russians were closing in on him and his friends. The head of his dormitory was arrested, and he and his friends. The head of his dormitory was arrested, and he and his friends decided to flee to Austria...
...went the first half-way by train, the second half by truck. "Unfortunately," he recounts, "the border police stopped the truck; we had no alibi, and so they arrested us and held us for six hours. They took our names, and told us to go back to Budapest, but we kept on in the direction of the Austrian border." They crossed the bridge at Andau, which was later blown up by the Russians...
...prisons were overcrowded, food was scarce, and so he and the rest of his fellow guerrillas were released. They made their way to the railroad station, where they waited to take a train to Budapest. The train trip to the capital was "very thrilling," he remembers, and they embarked at a town twenty miles from Budapest, and prepared to spend the night at the station. At 3 a.m., however, a man came in to tell them that "undersirable people are coming in--you had better clear away...
There was no doubt in their minds as to who the "undesirable people" were--and so they cleared away. "We spent the night in the shrubs," he said. "It was raining, it was very cold, and it was very unpleasant--but who cared?" In the morning they started toward Budapest, had "a pleasant chat with the Russians" on the way, and "somehow, climbing, sneaking, and waiting in gates, we got through the lines to Budapest...