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...Soviet soldiers. Roaming bands of rebels outside Budapest drove back Soviet units, set up roadblocks and cleared a corridor toward Vienna. The tide of battle was turning towards the provinces, and the faint voice of "freedom stations" was heard calling for a general strike throughout the country. An independent Hungarian government was reported to have been set up at Gyor (pop. 66,000), an industrial town 66 miles west of Budapest. At Pecs (pop. 87,000) in the south one rebel radio station was heard broadcasting military orders, indicating that a sizable part of the Hungarian army had gone over...
...arrested in 1947, forced to "confess" and shipped off to Siberia. Earlier this year, after nine years in Soviet prison camps, he returned to Pecs, where he was living quietly, avoiding politics. His appointment was as much a surprise to him as to everyone else in Hungary. Said a Hungarian: "He comes as close as anyone we know to being an anti-Communist." The question was, had nine years of prison broken the 49-year-old Kovacs' spirit...
...magic chemistry of courage, anger and desperation that makes men wager their lives for an ideal fired Hungary into revolution last week. Unarmed, unorganized, unaided from outside, not even fully aware at first of what might be involved in their deeds, the Hungarian people rolled back the tide of Communism. They overthrew a government. They took on the Soviet army. They fought well and long enough to win at least the pledged right to be free of Moscow dictation and free of one-party dictatorship. I hey suffered by the thousands and died by the hundreds...
...hills, to fight for months a war of repression while the world looked on? Or was it better to cut their losses, settle for what control they could keep over Hungary, and take their chances at restraining other satellite nations from seizing the same opportunity? In six days the Hungarian people made history-six days that shook the world...
...Hungary, son of a Calvinist peasant farmer (though Hungary is 66% Roman Catholic, the Calvinists are an important (21%) minority.) Early Days: after commercial school, became a locksmith's apprentice, then a mechanic. When World War I broke out, big, burly (200 lbs.) Imre was drafted into Austro-Hungarian army, wounded on Italian front, later captured by Russians, who sent him to Siberia. When the Czarist regime cracked he joined the Bolsheviks, was captured while fighting White Guards, escaped. Carried revolution to Hungary as minor lieutenant of famed Hungarian Communist Bela Kun, who ruled Hungary for 133 days...