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...Freedom Fighters filled the empty bottles with gasoline and corked them with table napkins, making what they called "benzine flashes." About midnight a woman reported that there was a Russian tank by itself in Jozsef Street. Ferenc and an apprentice Freedom Fighter (aged 13) went...
...Ferenc and the boy entered a house at the corner of the dark street and worked their way across rooftops and down ladders until they came to the house before which the tank was parked. Says Ferenc: "I was very frightened. Here I was with a 13-year-old boy and a bottle of gasoline." Ferenc put a handkerchief in the mouth of the bottle, tipped the bottle up to soak it with gas, set the handkerchief alight and dropped the "benzine flash" on the rear end of the tank. Says he: "An enormous flame shot up, and the whole...
...Ferenc Kocsis was not quite sure why he acted the way he did. His father had been grabbed by the Russians after the war and forced to work in arctic coal mines until his health broke down. "Some nights," Ferenc recalled, "he would wake us all by shouting in his sleep. 'No! No! Don't beat me!' and 'Set me free!' But my father never said anything in public. He stayed out of politics, and he bore his hatred in silence. That's the worst kind of hate, you know." Husky Ferenc had shouldered his way through the Communist bureaucracy...
...Budapest which Ferenc Kocsis left behind was a ghost city. Streetcar lines were torn up, pavement stones had been piled into barricades, great buildings had been reduced to rubble, and fires still burned in others. There was not a whole pane of glass in the city. Nor was there a single Red star to be seen, or a Soviet monument. Even the boots of the gigantic statue of Stalin had been smashed to bits. The monstrous leonine head, spat on and befilthed, had long since disappeared...
...face and a mop of disarrayed red hair, Peter was a product of Budapest's war-battered slums. He was one of those people, men, women, even children, who came up from nowhere to carry on the freedom fight after many like Janos Feher had died, and some like Ferenc Kocsis had left...