Word: kadarism
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...Kadar and other Hungarian party brass. But at a rally next night the man whose insistence on Poland's separate road to socialism forced Khrushchev one night in October 1956 to call off Soviet armed intervention in Warsaw, for the first time spoke the required, craven words in support of Russian repression in Budapest: "We regard as correct and necessary the decision taken by the Soviet Union to give help to the forces of socialism in your country at the time. It was an international obligation on the part of the U.S.S.R., in the interests of the Hungarian people...
...bustles through. Fresh from his triumphal "election" as Soviet Premier and accompanied by his latest favorite, First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov (see box, p. 24), Khrushchev descended on Budapest, scene of his most dubious triumph. He bounced out of his TU-104 jetliner, kissed Hungarian Party Chief Janos Kadar and Premier Ferenc Munnich on both cheeks, and with a wave of a black Homburg. told 4,000 stone-faced Hungarians: "The Soviet Union and the other Socialist countries are your most loyal friends." Replied the sallow, thin-haired Kadar. without a blink at the sepulchral irony of his own words...
Plants & Digs. Before long, Khrushchev ducked away from his security guards, hopped over a park railing, and started shaking hands and kissing children, calling back to Kadar to come and translate for him. Ceremonies creaked on through their echoing silences, and the shabby little parade of the Hungarian army, on the 13th anniversary of Hungary's capture from the Nazis, only served to show that it could muster neither as many tanks, planes, rockets nor men as the other military force stationed in Hungary-the Red army. But it was a national holiday and Good Friday, and after...
...With Kadar, Munnich briefly joined Imre Nagy's revolutionary government, then switched to become Minister of Interior and Defense in the Kadar regime. Two months after the revolution, his new police and army apparatus was working so smoothly that Russian troops could retire to rural barracks...
...Kadar keeps a Cabinet post and does not give up his crucial job as First Secretary of the party. More significant to Hungary experts was the simultaneous promotion of Antal Apro to First Deputy Premier; Apro leads the extreme Stalinist group that has been fighting Kadar for leadership. At the top in Hungary there are tough Communists and tougher Communists. Already many nervous Hungarians wonder if the despised Kadar was not the lesser of the evils...