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...demonstration was in the making, he was against it. "But then I didn't like this way of life, and I was mad and so I said I'd go along." Peter was among the crowd at Parliament House, and later he heard the AVH shooting people at Radio Budapest. When somebody said get some arms, he went along...
...came forward. Peter drove "a tall colonel who seemed to be in charge" to an arms depot, called the Lamp Factory, where they loaded cases of rifles and machine guns. The revolutionary fever caught Peter up at this point, and he was swept into the battle for Radio Budapest, shooting from the rooftops...
Before the Russians came back in tenfold strength, Budapest had its famous five days of freedom. There was heady talk of quitting the satellite Warsaw Pact and proclaiming neutrality. The romantic Hungarians had gone too far: back came the Russians in ruthless array. Out went Nagy, in came thin-lipped Quisling Janos Kadar. The Russian tanks and infantry were now too much for the street fighters. This is where the Hungarian revolution might have ended but for factory workers like Lazlo Szabo, foreman of a textile mill at Vac, near Budapest...
...first outbreak in Budapest, back on Oct. 23, had created great excitement in Vac. Lazlo hurried home from the factory. "A big argument started right away," he recalls. "I said a great change is coming and that we must do something about it. My father-in-law disagreed. He said everyone should lie low, or the AVH would get us. One of my wife's brothers-in-law said, 'It is madness to turn against Russian power. It will crush you.' Then my wife, who is better educated than the rest of us, said: 'Well, I am sure that...
Iron Paternalism. The victorious Horthy entered Budapest on a white horse, proclaiming. "I've come to punish this sinful city." The Red Terror became a counterterror, much of it directed against the Jews (Kun was Jewish). Though Horthy's country had been shorn of its seacoast and had no navy, he still used the title of admiral. As self-styled regent for an unoccupied throne, he ruled until 1944. During the early years of his long reign, under the premiership of Count Stephen Bethlen, Hungary was ruled by what was called an iron paternalism, but the iron gradually...