Word: grubennyik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Janos Kadar, party secretary without a real party, in a final desperate effort to end the general strike, issued a back-to-work ultimatum. To back up Kadar's stand Soviet Major General Grubennyik said that a further 20 Soviet divisions, comprising 200,000 men, were entering Hungary. Kadar assured the workers' councils that, once the strike had ended, the Red army would withdraw. No one trusted Kadar, but the Central Workers' Committee of Budapest, after a stormy debate at the Fisvek Club, agreed to try him out, reserving the right to strike...
...woman. The Soviet commander brought in a field gendarmerie called "R troops." The R men set up house guards, block inspectors and kangaroo courts empowered to execute within 24 hours any Hungarian found guilty of "murder, arson, looting," or concealing arms. The orders were signed by a Major General Grubennyik...
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