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...HUNGARIAN UPRISING. A crowd poured down Stalin Boulevard in Budapest and mounted the marble base of the statue, a 25-foot bronze of Joseph Stalin erected on the site of the razed Regnum Marianum Church. With ladders, cables and acetylene torches, a group of workers cut through the metal knees and brought the old dictator crashing to the street. Hungarians hammered at the huge metal corpse. Said one wrecker: "I want a souvenir of this old bastard...
Chief defendant was Father László Emödi, 45, former rector of Budapest's Regnum Marianum Church, which was razed by the Reds in 1950 to make room for a huge statue of Stalin. Emödi was first imprisoned in 1961 for organizing religious instruction among children, but was later amnestied. Now he must serve out the four remaining years of his earlier jail sentence as well as five more years for his latest "relapse." Also convicted: Father Alajos Werner, Hungary's leading composer of religious music, who several years ago attended a congress...
...crowd, swollen by workers, soldiers and yet more students, and orderly until this moment, began to thrill for action. There was another statue in Budapest, as hated as this one was revered. By 1951 the Russians had cleared away the World War II ruins of Regnum Marianum, the famed Roman Catholic church, and erected in its place a 25-ft. bronze statue of Stalin. There he stood, in baggy pants and handlebar mustaches, symbol of Hungary's servitude. One of the manifestoes had called for the removal of the statue. The crowd decided to do its own idol busting...
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