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Word: gero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrested scores of leaders, broke up demonstrations, suppressed news of those riots that defied control (e.g., in Hanyang). "Those popular manifestations are clear and unmistakable evidences," said Hu, "to prove that the Chinese Communist regime . . . is as unstable and as shaky as was the Hungarian regime of Rakosi and Gero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Unstable Achievement | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Early in October Moscow sent Hungary's Premier Andras Hegedus and Party Secretary Erno Gero on a visit to Tito's Yugoslavia, and the world concluded that Kremlin concessions to Hungary were in the wind. But several days before the revolt broke out, says the U.N. report, ponton bridges were assembled by the Russian army at Zahony on the Hungarian-Soviet frontier. And in neighboring Rumania, Soviet officers on leave and reserve officers speaking Hungarian were recalled to their units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Indictment for Murder | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...before Hungarian students were expected to demonstrate at the statue of Hungarian Hero-Poet Petofi, Soviet forces in western Hungary were observed moving towards Budapest. The Hungarian demonstrations, when they occurred, were spontaneous, "entirely peaceable," and nothing shows that any demonstrators intended to "resort to force." Then Erno Gero, suddenly recalled from Belgrade, made an aggressive radio speech: There would be no relaxation of Communist control. The students became incensed. And when they tried to have their modest demands read out over the same radio station, the hated AVH secret police fired on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Indictment for Murder | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...return of the one Communist leader whose 21-month rule they had identified with a relaxation of Communist hardship. But now, on the steps of Parliament House, the reluctant Imre Nagy had given a disappointing party-line speech. He was called into the presence of Hegedus and Gero. "Now you can stew in your own juice," shouted Gero. Answered Nagy: "I warned you not to play with fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Indictment for Murder | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...tried to steer a middle course between the extremists of both sides, was stung into an electrifying attack on the Stalinists. "Why, Comrade Mijal," asked Gomulka, "do you all the time insist on including references to the Soviet Union supremacy? We had the example of Rakosi and Gero always using such phrases, and it ended with Soviet tanks at the head of Budapest streets." Confusion fell among the Stalinists when 'one of their number, Franciszek Mazur, a recognized Kremlin agent who flits regularly between Moscow and Warsaw, suddenly switched his support to Gomulka, indicating that the Kremlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Crisis & a Question | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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