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World War II: called into Stalin's Hungarian propaganda section, edited Uj Hang (New Voice) in Moscow, and broad cast from Budapest-beamed Radio Kossuth (named after National Hero Louis Kossuth, who led Hungary's 1848 struggle for independence which a Russian army helped crush). Returned to Hungary in the baggage train of the onsweeping Red army in 1944, along with Gero, Rakosi and other Moscow-trained Communists, to take over liberated Hungary...
...Faces: while stone-bald Matyas Rakosi engulfed the Social Democrats, and began slicing up the opposition with his "salami tactics" (a slice at a time), Nagy gave Communism its soft face. Appointed Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, he made a reputation as a "sincere" and "earnest" speechmaker, taught agrarian science at Budapest University, published books on theology, made no protest when his daughter married a practicing Protestant clergyman. By sitting around Budapest cafes fingering his soup-strainer mustache, talking soccer and politics, hinting that there were other methods of doing things than those adopted by Russians, he cultivated "liberal" attitude...
...sent First Deputy Premier Mikoyan down to Budapest to suggest that Rakosi take a health cure in Russia. The Russian solution: to supplant one gendarme bureaucrat by another. Old-Line Stalinist Erno Gero, the ruthless agent "Pedro" of the Spanish civil war (TIME, July 30), was pushed into the Hungarian leadership in July of this year, and told to clear his "liberalization" plans with Tito...
While Nagy began assembling a governmental apparatus that would promise to meet the demands of the rebels, the Communist Party organization was put into the hands of a man who could be described as "Hungarian to his fingertips"-his fingernails having been ripped out by Dictator Rakosi's torturers during the anti-Titoist terror...
World War II: while Hungary's Big Five (Nagy, Rakosi, Gero, Joseph Revai and Zoltan Vas) lived comfortably in Moscow, Kadar sweated it out in the Hungarian Communist underground Beke Part (Peace Party; membership, 1,000). Trying to make liaison with Tito's partisans, he was captured by Hitler's Gestapo, but escaped in time to meet incoming Russians. Delighted to find a real tough Communist resistance fighter, the Big Five made him a Politburo member, and deputy police chief (he knew who was who in Nazi Hungary). In 1948 he was Minister of Interior during...