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...Hungarian Revolution...
...Abrams was amazed at the Russians' lack of knowledge about the West, he was shocked at how little the Russian people knew about the real facts behind the Hungarian Revolution of late October and early November of last year...
...tried to tell them about it, but they didn't believe me," he said. "'That could not be so,' was the normal retort. 'We know that only criminals, Fascists, and counter-revolutionaries fought, and that the Hungarian government asked our government to come in and help them...
...continued to address the crowds, Abrams began to realize that some of them, perhaps as many as 25 per cent, knew much more about the Hungarian affair than they dared to admit publicly. Slowly groups of men and women began to draw him aside for private discussions. One of these individuals was a professor at the University of Moscow, who explained the general ignorance by the fact that the Russian newspapers had suppressed all the real news about Hungary...
...Mikoyan felt about doing the Hungarian dirty work no outsider knows. A Briton who has lived long in Moscow says: "Mikoyan disappeared from the Moscow round from mid-October to the beginning of December. In those six weeks he aged ten years. He was drawn and haggard, and his skin was yellow when we saw him again. Instead of an old man looking young, he was an old man looking more than...