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...came back in tenfold strength, Budapest had its famous five days of freedom. There was heady talk of quitting the satellite Warsaw Pact and proclaiming neutrality. The romantic Hungarians had gone too far: back came the Russians in ruthless array. Out went Nagy, in came thin-lipped Quisling Janos Kadar. The Russian tanks and infantry were now too much for the street fighters. This is where the Hungarian revolution might have ended but for factory workers like Lazlo Szabo, foreman of a textile mill at Vac, near Budapest...
Last January I got pretty mad when TIME picked Harlow Curtice as Man of the Year. This year I would like to beat you to the punch. I predict your boy will be: Janos Kadar...
Western observers, however, were careful to qualify judgment of the incredible Hungarians with such statements as "morally and psychologically, the revolution is as strong as ever." Something like that was acknowledged by Premier Kadar in an interview with Communist East German correspondents. Said Kadar: "The military defeat has been completed. It will be the ideological struggle that will be the most important...
...ideological struggle, Kadar obviously meant his failure to persuade the people that his regime was good for them. In several areas the workers' councils refused to accept his decree outlawing them. According to Kadar's official Nep Szabadsag, Heves county, northeast of Budapest, was virtually a rebel stronghold whose villagers "just jeer at the order and carry on their activities ..." But Kadar's biggest headache was the coal miners. Less than half of Hungary's 100,000 miners were at work, and coal production was down an estimated 70%. Last week those coal miners...
...shared headquarters with the joint Soviet-Hungarian Police Committee (probable chairman: Soviet Police Boss Ivan Serov). To Hungarians this was proof that while it might suit the Russians to appear to be withdrawing, leaving Premier Janos Kadar to work out his own solution, they were, in fact, still in control...