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There were large areas of the world where there was no revulsion at all (Russians were told vaguely of some "white reaction" in Hungary; China's 602 million were told just about nothing. In most Moslem nations, the report of the Hungarian bloodshed and the emotional response to it were dulled, even drowned, by indignation at the Franco-British-Israeli invasion of Egypt. An exception: Tunisia's Moslem Premier Habib Bourguiba, who indicted Russia for "waging pitiless war against a weak country...
...Satellites. Poland, for the first time since the war's end, did not declare a holiday on the Bolshevik anniversary; in Rumania, which has a sizable Hungarian minority, the scheduled Bolshevik Revolution parade was canceled for fear it would provoke anti-Communist disturbances. In a special message to the world, Pope
Pius remembered the words that God spoke to Cain: "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth." And he added: "The blood of the Hungarian people cries vengeance to the Lord." The United Nations General Assembly, having already voted, in vain, to send a commission of inquiry into Hungary, voted overwhelmingly to promote large-scale relief for Hungary's victims, and voted decisively (48-11, with 16 abstentions, mostly all Arab-Asian) to indict Russia for its "intolerable" acts of repression...
Remembering the World War II rape of Budapest by Red army soldiers, Hungarian women obliged to go out seeking food for their families disguised themselves as old hags. On one street in Pest lay the nude, violated body of a pregnant 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...
...their days of pride, now began looting shops and department stores. Food trains halted by the Russians outside Budapest were hijacked. Hundreds of radio sets were taken from one factory, presumably so that the rebel underground could listen to the outside world. Monitors reported the faint voice of a Hungarian radio "ham" calling: "Give us news! Say something! Give us news. We ask for news...