Word: mvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MVD in Vogue. T.T., a sort of Bolshevik Babbitt with a strain of a Good Soldier Schweik of the Class War, is the central figure in a series of events which would seem like fantasy were not each episode matched by a solemn quotation from Soviet pronouncements. By Soviet standards, T.T. is highly fortunate-he has a television set, a Pobeda automobile, a plump stomach and a talented teen-age daughter named Simochka. Yet there comes the dreadful day when it is reported from Simochka's university that she has been overheard making anti-party statements. This is serious...
...what is the problem. Thus, to buy silence, the television set goes to a despised subordinate, a piano to someone else, a raccoon coat to a third. Simochka is saved, at the price of most of Daddy's worldly goods-only to be trapped again by a girl MVD agent who wins the simple Communist debutante's confidence with a copy of a magazine resembling Vogue...
...Later recreated as a ministry, the MVD, though the old name stuck. * Security Boss Ignatiev, who may know a great deal about Stalin's death two months later, is still alive, a full member of the Central Committee and the only living ex-NKVD boss. * Khrushchev's answer, delivered last week in Czechoslovakia: "On a hungry stomach, Marxist-Leninism may be very difficult to un derstand. It is not wrong to throw in a piece of bacon and a piece of butter in the course of improving the theory of Marx...
...Cabinet have already been brought back and lodged in Fo Utca Prison, Miss Kethly said, and their trial presumably will provide the backdrop for Nagy's. Said Anna Kethly: "The Prime Minister is under great pressure to confess. A special investigation group was set up by the MVD and the AVH for this reason. Not only secret policemen are members of this special group; it includes psychiatrists, heart and nerve specialists. They believe that under the pressures of their daily tortures the Premier will confess. I am absolutely sure he will confess...
...secret police, reconstituted under the command of Colonel Laszlo Matyas, strengthened by Hungarian army officers, but still basically made up of the old semi-moronic AVH professionals. The sadists of 60 Stalin Ut (old AVH headquarters) are busier than ever, helped out at a Buda jail by the Russian MVD, which has its own interrogation procedure for VIPs. Scores of Freedom Fighters, including youths and girls, have been brought before summary courts and sentenced to hanging-slow strangulation, old Magyar style...