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HUNGARY. Former boss Janos Kadar's "goulash communism" allowed some privatization of industry (15% by 1989) and considerable self-management by state-owned enterprises. So when communism was overthrown, the new government saw no need for shock treatment; officials could institute a more gradual process of lifting price controls and reducing or eliminating subsidies. As a result, Hungary has experienced the smallest drop in production in Eastern Europe (6.5% last year) and the lowest inflation (34% for all 1991, about a third of that at year's end). Hungary has been especially successful in attracting foreign investment; it has formed...
...Janos Kadar: Selected Speeches and Interviews, 1985. A mind-numbing collection from Hungary's collaborationist leader, who was removed as party leader...
...Soviets agreed to turn over the premiership to Nagy, a walrus- mustachioed intellectual; the hated Gero was replaced by Janos Kadar. Nagy tried to slow the revolution, but the street crowds kept applying pressure. He agreed to take noncommunists into his government. Going further, he formally asked the Soviets to leave, announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and asked the U.N. to guarantee his country's neutrality. On Oct. 29, it was announced that the Soviets had begun withdrawing from Budapest...
That was just one day after the withdrawing Soviet tanks turned around and rolled back into Budapest. Soviet commanders claimed they were doing so at the request of Kadar, who was actually hiding in a Soviet command post outside the city. Nagy took refuge in the Yugoslav embassy but was later lured out, seized and hanged. After about a month of sporadic fighting, the Hungarian revolt was liquidated...
...second section succeeds precisely where the first one fails, as Ash traces the changes in Hungary to the statesanctioned reburial of 1956-hero Imre Nagy. By acknowledging his enemy, Ash explains from the streets of Budapest, Janos Kadar, a darling of the West, made his own rule an unresolvable paradox. The ensuing changes were inevitable...