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...pyramid of funeral wreaths lay beside the wooden coffins in Heroes' Square. There, last week, more than 200,000 mourners gathered in downtown Budapest to bury the Stalinist ghost in Hungarian history. Church bells tolled, and the people sang the Szozat, the emotionally charged hymn of the nation's repeated triumphs over foreign domination...
...proper tribute for Imre Nagy. He was Hungary's Prime Minister in 1956, when Soviet tanks stormed into Budapest to crush the tumultuous uprising that for a moment seemed to promise freedom and democracy in one of Moscow's East European satellites. Nagy and four of his top aides were executed in 1958 after a secret trial and buried in an unmarked grave. Earlier this year, their bodies were exhumed for a formal, cathartic reburial. "Never again should such a terror occur," Miklos Vasarhelyi, Nagy's former press secretary, told the crowd. "We hereby close once...
...control can also mean disorder, which in turn can provoke repression, reversing reform and jeopardizing the political survival of the reformer. Last week it happened in Tbilisi. Next week, or next month, it could happen outside the borders of the U.S.S.R. but still within the empire, in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, East Berlin. Western statesmen have their own dilemma. A crisis in the East, especially if it seemed to be fanned by the West, could play into the hands of Gorbachev's conservative opponents and trigger a crackdown...
...police held back traffic as an elated throng of 75,000 marchers snaked through the streets of central Budapest waving red-white-and-green Hungarian flags and shouting "Democracy!" Under banners as disparate as those of the liberal reformist Hungarian Democratic Forum and the neo-Stalinist Ferenc Munnich Society, independent political clubs and parties reveled peacefully last week in the first officially sanctioned street demonstrations since last fall, when legislation for sweeping political reforms was introduced, including a multiparty system for the socialist state. Thousands more Hungarians marked National Day by heading -- literally -- for the exits. Easy access to passports...
Private funding can also help. This month the bloc's first privately financed business school will open in Budapest. A Rockefeller Brothers Fund program assists private agriculture in Poland. But so far the private stake has been small. In the past, the East bloc regimes have disdained such capitalist assistance. Now Western investors worry about instability. "If they want new money and new investment from the West, they've got to create an economic and social climate so Western business executives will sense they're dealing with a stable situation, unfettered by bureaucracy, ((with)) a normal return they can repatriate...