Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filled with the usual trumpeting speeches hailing Lenin's memory, including a tender, hour-long radio drama on his life. The drama ended with a fine rendition of Beethoven's Appassionata, Lenin's favorite piece, and Lenin's own words: "I know nothing more beautiful than the Appassionata and I could listen to it every day. Wonderful, immortal music. I always think, with perhaps a naive, childish pride, how can man create such wonders?" In its most cuddly voice, the Communist radio concluded: "Such a man was Lenin...
...peasants were bewildered. Janos Kelemen, the local president of the Communist-run Peasant Party, to whom Hungary's postwar land reform had given two holds (2.84 acres) in addition to the three he had owned before, said humbly: "I am a stupid peasant. How should I know whether Mindszenty is guilty or not? They tell me in one paper one way, and then comes my friend and tells me these are just lies...
...fear that the Communists will take his land and make it part of a kolkhoz (collective farm). He is not sure what a kolkhoz is, but, he said: "Whatever it is, it is nobody's business to tell me what to do with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef...
...History. Father Molnar refers to his flock as mentally retarded and reactionary. "Hungarians," he said, "are always against something. Mindszenty was working on this theory to incite the people against the new democracy. He is a good and stubborn soldier. But he is a bad diplomat who does not know his history. How could he solve the world's ills by turning back the pages of history...
...guerrilla leader strolled up to her and ripped open the bodice of her dress. He laughed and said: "Not much milk for a woman who claims to be with child." To his men he said: "Take her with the others. She should know better than...