Word: miskolc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Miskolc," said the stranger. "We escaped yesterday morning, just before the Russian tanks closed in. My name's on the police list. In the name of Hungary, let us hide here!" By this time, everybody could see it was Sam Lawrence, editor in a publishing firm. He kept sneaking a look at the script he had in his hand, but he was grim about his part...
Debrecen, Dunapentele and Szolnok, no wheel turned. The coal mines were deserted. At Salgotarjan 80 people were killed when police fired into a crowd of 10,000 workers who demanded the release of their workers'-council representative. But the most serious disturbances were at Miskolc, near the Czech border. Following a raid by Freedom Fighters who came down from the Bukk Mountains and de stroyed a Communist newspaper plant, Soviet soldiers retaliated by setting fire to a theater in which workers were holding a strike meeting. Later the Freedom Fighters descended from the hills again, fought a pitched battle...
...great Csepel iron and steel works, strike leaders told the Russians they had mined all the factories and that if the Russians began shooting workers they would blow up the whole industrial area. At Miskolc (pop. 200,000), coal miners set up a volunteer organization to keep order, mined only enough coal to keep kindergartens and hospitals heated. At Gyor, when some workers said they would go back to work, the town's bakers told them there would be no bread...
...have been set up at Gyor (pop. 66,000), an industrial town 66 miles west of Budapest. At Pecs (pop. 87,000) in the south one rebel radio station was heard broadcasting military orders, indicating that a sizable part of the Hungarian army had gone over to the rebels. Miskolc (pop. 136,000), near the Czech border, Hungary's second most important industrial center, fell to the rebels at week's end. At the village of Magyarovar, 15 miles from the Austrian border, security police shot 75 people, wounded 200 others, when local farmers showed resistance. The village...
...Freedom Radio" stations in Pecs, Miskolc and other cities, while critical of the overwhelming Communist majority in the new Cabinet ("Men who had sold out to the Soviet Union"), seemed ready to settle for "a general election," i.e., the new government was acceptable provided it was as an interim...