Word: kadarism
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Hungarian intellectuals earned their meager allowance the hard way. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, after betraying his country to the Kremlin during the uprising, for four years tried to whip the country into submission by brutal use of police terror. But Kadar eventually learned that he could not force the sullen Hungarians to cooperate. With his civil service in tatters and economy a shambles, he gradually relaxed controls, even began naming non-Communist experts to key industrial jobs. "He who is not against us is with us," said Kadar in late 1961. Such relative leniency in a Communist state at last...
...always seem to be in short supply. The Red army still stays prudently hidden in its camps ringing Budapest, and the hated AVH secret police have been replaced by a less conspicuously murderous bunch known as BKH, but nobody is enthusiastic about the "permissiveness" shown lately by Premier Janos Kadar...
...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...