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...restless and articulate Hungarian intellectuals who sparked the revolt of Oct. 23, mostly young Communists, were not thinking in terms of Lenin, but of the Hungarian patriots who revolted against the Habsburg monarchy in 1848. The street and rooftop fighters, who took over the struggle from the intellectuals, performed their self-appointed tasks with a valor, pride and gallantry that is found only in the revolutionary traditions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Then, as their strength was exhausted in the battle against modern steel, the fight was taken over by the stolid nerveless men of the factories, inspired...
...wrote a novel about village life and was severely rebuked by the party for attempting to sabotage the People's Democracy. He and some other students wrote and performed a sharp satire on the wreck of Mt. Olympus (i.e., Russian Communism) and were investigated by the AVH, the Hungarian secret police. But the police did nothing to them because the students and intellectuals enjoy a special place in Communist regimes, providing the reservoir of skill and talent on which the bureaucracy continuously draws. A friend remembers Janos as saying before the revolt: "The workers and the peasants hate the regime...
Both clubs were named after Hungarian revolutionaries, which suited the Russian book, but neither the Russians nor their Hungarian stooges seemed to realize that the names of Kossuth and Petofi were dangerously charged with patriotic and nationalist sentiment. In September 2,000 young Communists crowded into the Petofi Club to hear a discussion on the Communist-controlled press. The meeting had been packed with old hard-core Communists and AVH men, but nevertheless the debate was free and furious. Janos and his friends left feeling that they had scored heavily against the system...
...same feeling that he one day decided the revolution was over, and beat it for the Austrian border. Last month in Vienna he was ashamed of this decision, declaring that he wanted to go back and carry on the fight. Said he: "What else can a good Hungarian...
Before the Russians came back in tenfold strength, Budapest had its famous five days of freedom. There was heady talk of quitting the satellite Warsaw Pact and proclaiming neutrality. The romantic Hungarians had gone too far: back came the Russians in ruthless array. Out went Nagy, in came thin-lipped Quisling Janos Kadar. The Russian tanks and infantry were now too much for the street fighters. This is where the Hungarian revolution might have ended but for factory workers like Lazlo Szabo, foreman of a textile mill at Vac, near Budapest...