Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid such mass meetings. He sent no invitations at all to Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam, and called in his East European allies to Moscow one by one for quick briefings on Cuba. Last to arrive and last to leave was Hungary's Janos Kadar...
...people to revolt in 1956, none was more famous than Novelist Tibor Dery. His Niki: The Story of a Dog, a powerful satire on Stalinism in Hungary, was published on the eve of the uprising and immediately became a bestseller. For his role in the revolution, the Janos Kadar puppet regime sentenced Dery to nine years in prison...
...years ago Dery was released, when Kadar tried to win the support of the apathetic population by slightly relaxing his dictatorship. Today, under Kadar's slogan "He who is not against us is with us," non-Communist technicians have been given important industrial posts, attacks against the church have slackened, Western newspapers can be bought in Budapest hotel lobbies. But unlike most other Hungarian intellectuals, who tentatively raised soft voices of comment within the limits set down by the regime, Dery cloaked his reaction to the changing times in silence. He published nothing, was inaccessible to visiting Westerners, even...
...Kadar's efforts to rally the country behind him have not been a stunning success, but at least the people are quiet. Said a veteran of the Budapest revolt: "You agree to work for the Reds so you can live, so your wife can eat and your children can get an education. You try not to think about it too much." But if the people were tamely cooperative, the local Communist functionaries grew bitter at their downgrading and longed for the old days of bulletheaded Matyas Rakosi and Erno Gero, who as party leaders in 1956 had invited...
Last week Kadar felt himself strong enough to move against the Red dissenters. In a plenary session, the Central Committee of the party voted to expel 25 top Communists-including Stalinists Rakosi and Gero-for factionalism, and for crimes they had committed in the Stalin era (when Kadar himself was jailed and tortured by Red police, who castrated him and tore off his fingernails). It was the most sweeping move toward destalinization undertaken by any satellite country since Nikita Khrushchev put on the heat in his campaign against Stalin's image; Khrushchev quickly indicated his approval by promising...