Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miners in the Tatabanya and Pecs areas had taken to the hills and were operating as armed guerrillas. Radio Free Europe monitors in Munich were still taping signals from a rebel radio transmitter, evidently moving with a band of Freedom Fighters: "Attention, workers, hold out! The hours of the Kadar regime are numbered...
...midnight Radio Belgrade announced to the world that the Nagy party had not reached their homes. Under Secretary Vidic protested angrily to the Kadar government: "If the agreement [to return the Nagy group to their homes ] is not implemented, the Yugoslav government will consider it a flagrant violation, not only of the existing friendly relations between the two countries, but also of the generally recognized norms of international...
Despite the Yugoslav protest, the Hungarians spent that night at Soviet headquarters, and next morning Nagy was taken to see Premier Kadar. Nothing is known of what took place during the interview, but Kadar may have urged Nagy to join him in a coalition government, and been refused. The next that was heard of Nagy was a cryptic announcement over Radio Budapest that Nagy had expressed a wish to live in a people's democracy, and that he and his companions had "departed to the territory of the Rumanian People's Republic...
...wholesale deportation was not Russia's only technique for reducing a people. The Hungarian peasants who had been bringing food into Budapest and giving it freely to the workers were cut off, and all food was channeled through government distribution centers. Puppet Premier Janos Kadar tried desperately to get support behind his regime. He got nowhere with Imre Nagy (see above). And he was making little progress with ex-Secretary-General Bela Kovacs of the Smallholders' Party, or with the Peasant Party's Istvan Bibo. During one of Radar's bumbling appeals over Radio Budapest, studio...
...Hungarian newsman reported what happened when the hour came: "In this city of 1,500,000, the only living people in the battered, rubble-strewn streets were the police and Russian soldiers. A voice shouted: 'All those who are working now are Kadar men.' At five minutes to 3 the windows opened, and people sang the national anthem. Everybody was standing bareheaded and singing...