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...their intentions, during Hungary's miraculous five days of freedom (see Hungary) were welcomed. In a matter of hours Moscow was able to report that Communist Premier Imre Nagy, who had defied the Kremlin, was in jail, and a new Communist government installed under Party Secretary Janos Kadar (TIME...
World War II: while Hungary's Big Five (Nagy, Rakosi, Gero, Joseph Revai and Zoltan Vas) lived comfortably in Moscow, Kadar sweated it out in the Hungarian Communist underground Beke Part (Peace Party; membership, 1,000). Trying to make liaison with Tito's partisans, he was captured by Hitler's Gestapo, but escaped in time to meet incoming Russians. Delighted to find a real tough Communist resistance fighter, the Big Five made him a Politburo member, and deputy police chief (he knew who was who in Nazi Hungary). In 1948 he was Minister of Interior during...
...Purge: tough, ruthless Kadar fell into Rakosi's dragnet during the anti-Tito campaign, resisted intense torture, including the fingernail treatment, applied by Police Chiefs Gabor Peter and Vladimir Farkas (both now in jail). Secretly tried, he was moved from prison to prison because of his reputation as an escape artist. Released during the post-Stalin "liberalization" period, he got a minor job in one of Budapest's 22 party districts...
...muscular man with rough proletarian manners, rated no speechmaker, brusque, brown-eyed Kadar vowed he would get Rakosi, who worried about Kadar's growing popularity in the Communist youth organizations. By picking Kadar to succeed Gero as party boss last week, the Russians reckoned to appease Hungarian national feeling, but still keep a hard-core Communist in the key party position...
...dedicated. In Hungary, the hangman had long since disposed of Rajk, but there was Erno Gero, who might bring off the act. If the crowds got too insistent, they could always bring back tractable Imre Nagy as front man, and for the tougher business of running the party, Janes Kadar...