Word: gero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slight, intense, with his shock of unruly hair and Roman nose, remained aloof from this excitement. "It's too early," he warned his friends. During the afternoon he stood by impassively as the crowd, still orderly and unled, came finally to Parliament House. It was Communist Party Boss Erno Gero, just returned from a visit to Tito, who touched off the fuse. In a radio speech, Gero accused the people of "provocations." Surging toward Radio Budapest, the crowd demanded the right to be heard. The AVH guards began shooting...
...this high point of patriotic emotion, messengers came with the news that Gero was talking on the radio. Ferenc Kocsis went with part of the crowd to Radio Budapest, where the AVH were throwing tear-gas grenades. He saw a young boy?"just a little fellow with an open shirt and an old jacket, no overcoat and no hat"?pick up one of the grenades and throw it back. The AVH panicked, and the mob surged forward. Ferenc heard a burst of machine-gun fire. There was a sudden silence and then a roar went up, soft at first...
...tragically," because he saw that "this was not the attitude of the entire Soviet leadership, but only of a section which had imposed its will on the others." In the end, to help them all out, Tito was willing to give his blessing to a tough character named Erno Gero whom the Russians wanted to fob off as a "Titoist" to ease the discontent in Hungary. It was Gero who first ordered the army to fire on the Hungarian rebels...
Skillfully, the Russians masked their intentions. At the Turkish embassy in Moscow early last week, in an atmosphere of champagne and caviar, burly Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov began talking sympathetically about the "bureaucratic errors" of the late Rakosi-Gero regimes in Hungary. All the rebels had to do to obtain the withdrawal of Soviet troops, said Shepilov, was lay down their arms. Taxed with continuing to pour troops into Hungary, Marshal Georgy Zhukov roared denial. Said he, with a grand gesture: "There are already enough troops in Hungary to suppress a rebellion and maintain order...
Scurrying to the new "prepared positions," the Communists sacked Party Leader Gero and brought in Nagy as Premier, but not in time...