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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...minor mysteries, in all the disorder of Hungary's last days of freedom, was the killing of Milenko Milovnov, a Yugoslav embassy secretary, as he stood "looking out the window" of the Yugoslav embassy on Stalin Square. Last week the mystery was cleared up: he was shot, all right, but not while staring out a window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Asylum's End | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...that Communist vengeance extends to families, he gathered up ten other Hungarian political leaders and their families, including Julia Rajk, whose husband Laszlo Rajk had been executed as a Titoist in 1949. They all arrived at the back door of the Yugoslav embassy just in time. As Embassy Secretary Milovnov let them in,a Russian armored car screeched to a halt, and out popped a soldier who sprayed the doorway with his Tommy gun. Nagy & Co. got inside the door safely, but Milovnov crumpled to the ground, dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Asylum's End | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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