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...flying the French Tricolor from his church spire. In 1944 Hungary fell to the Nazis. Condemned to death by the Hitler regime, Bela Varga hid in a church cellar, was sometimes sheltered by his lifelong friend, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. Soviet "liberation"' saw his death sentence reaffirmed by the NKVD; but he was released after 14 days in prison. In Soviet-occupied Hungary's only free election in 1945, the Smallholders Party won a resounding majority, later installed Father Varga as Speaker of Parliament. But political liberty was short-lived. In 1947, he fled to Vienna and was airlifted...
...story has become as stylized an art form as the western. According to the rules, good spies, like cowboys, always win: Boris Morros is one of those who lived to tell how he beat the paper rustlers of the NKVD...
...sidled backstage at Paramount and said he could fix things so that Morros Sr. would get his hampers. After the wheedling and finagling came the bullying, and Morros found himself being hectored by "Herbert," now a foul-mouthed drunken oaf called Zubilin, who said he was boss of the NKVD...
Bloody Past. Trained at Moscow's Frunze Military Academy to be a professional soldier, Serov was assigned on graduation to the NKVD. He first caught the Kremlin's approving eye in the '30s as chief Chekist in the Ukraine (where Nikita Khrushchev also served as Stalin's troubleshooter). shooting and deporting to certain death in Siberian slave camps hundreds of thousands of peasants who resisted collectivization. When World War II began, Serov, an equal in bloodstained iniquity to Nazi Germany's Himmler, specialized in genocide and in exterminating "anti-Soviet elements" in the new Soviet...
Nathan suggested that Soble may still be a loyal Communist and may have been "given the assignment to destroy the defendant because Zborowski had told the NKVD to go to hell...