Word: kadarism
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...into a general revolt like that in Hungary. But if such a revolt should take place, Poland's intellectuals, students and soldiers would play a key part just as their counterparts did in Budapest. But what would Gomulka's role be? Would he play Nagy or Kadar? The answer to the question lies somewhere in Gomulka's curious balance between Communism and patriotism...
Poles were disappointed that Gomulka had agreed to recognize the "workers" regime in Hungary, though Gomulka had refused to endorse Kadar by name. Instead of getting the Red army out of Poland, he had entered into a new military agreement by which six Soviet divisions would remain in Poland, although their upkeep would in future be paid for by Moscow. His reason: "Safeguarding our security and protecting the sanctity of the Oder-Neisse line." The poison sowed by Stalin was still being harvested by Russia...
...miners in the Tatabanya and Pecs areas had taken to the hills and were operating as armed guerrillas. Radio Free Europe monitors in Munich were still taping signals from a rebel radio transmitter, evidently moving with a band of Freedom Fighters: "Attention, workers, hold out! The hours of the Kadar regime are numbered...
...wholesale deportation was not Russia's only technique for reducing a people. The Hungarian peasants who had been bringing food into Budapest and giving it freely to the workers were cut off, and all food was channeled through government distribution centers. Puppet Premier Janos Kadar tried desperately to get support behind his regime. He got nowhere with Imre Nagy (see above). And he was making little progress with ex-Secretary-General Bela Kovacs of the Smallholders' Party, or with the Peasant Party's Istvan Bibo. During one of Radar's bumbling appeals over Radio Budapest, studio...
...Hungarian newsman reported what happened when the hour came: "In this city of 1,500,000, the only living people in the battered, rubble-strewn streets were the police and Russian soldiers. A voice shouted: 'All those who are working now are Kadar men.' At five minutes to 3 the windows opened, and people sang the national anthem. Everybody was standing bareheaded and singing...