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...seven huge Soviet tanks, a dozen armored cars and Red army infantry, was the only piece of ground which could correctly be said to be controlled by the government. Workers' leaders went up to the Presidential Council chamber on the second floor to see Janus-faced Janos Kadar. They found a weary, bug-eyed...
...wretched regime working, the desperate Kadar was ready to promise almost anything. Free elections? He was willing to take a chance on that. Multiparty government? "Find Bela Kovacs [onetime Secretary General of the Smallholders Party] for me, and I'll gladly cooperate with him." He was already negotiating with representatives of the Peasants' Party. Imre Nagy? "Bring him back, because this job is a burden to me." Only one thing Kadar could not promise, for it was not in his power. He would not order the Red army to quit Hungary...
...deposed Premier Imre Nagy. From his hideout in the small greystone two-storied Yugoslav embassy in Stalin Square (where a Soviet tankist a week earlier had killed the embassy's First Secretary Milenko Milov-nov), the intransigent Nagy sent word that he would have no dealings with Kadar. But Budapest's workers insisted that he was the only man they would trust to "ensure the achievements of our Revolution." Said a member of the Csepel workers' council: "We respect Nagy and we are anxious for him, and we wish that he remain in the Yugoslav embassy. First...
Against this background, Kadar's Radio Budapest played dance music, interspersed with appeals to "progressive youths and mothers not to allow gangsters to enter their homes and fire from windows." Reflected one announcer: "How brutal and inhuman it was that in past days simple party men were attacked because they were party men." But as the week went on and "progressive" Hungarians did not respond, Radio Budapest's tone became hysterical. "If you don't go down into the pits," it told coal miners, "the workers cannot go to work, no bread will be baked, there will...
...Kadar's last resort was to starve Budapest out of hiding. Food was offered, in exchange for surrendered arms. The rebels, who had done no looting during their days of pride, now began looting shops and department stores. Food trains halted by the Russians outside Budapest were hijacked. Hundreds of radio sets were taken from one factory, presumably so that the rebel underground could listen to the outside world. Monitors reported the faint voice of a Hungarian radio "ham" calling: "Give us news! Say something! Give us news. We ask for news...