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What impelled Tito to clarify his position was an oblique rumor, reprinted with deliberate intent in Moscow's Pravda, that the "reactionary fascist uprising" in Hungary was all Tito's doing. To clear himself of this charge, Tito threw down the compromised Imre Nagy (who had found asylum in the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest) : "If his government had been more energetic, if it had not hesitated one time one way and then another, if it had resolutely stood up against anarchy . . . things would have moved in a more correct way." Tito now supported the Soviet-puppet Kadar regime...
Even before the U.K. vote, the freedom stations in Hungary had been going off the air one after the other. New voices told of the appointment of the new Communist regime of treacherous Janos Kadar, and of the downfall of Communist Nagy. Pravda had the last word on Nagy: "He turned out to be an accomplice of reactionary forces. A woman's voice on Radio Budapest screamed "ominous consequences" for those who did not lay down their arms. Dark night was returning to Hungary...
...Lack of cultural opportunities throughout the Soviet Union is forcing young people to "turn to the church for consolation," complained Pravda. Particularly in the Ural area, Pravda admitted, "the influence of local churchmen is becoming increasingly strong...
...Communist Party, led by Erno Gero himself, prepared to pay court to Belgrade. A delegation from the Italian party, the most powerful outside the Iron Curtain, was already on Tito's doorstep. Rumania was sending a delegation, and also the French Communist Party, hitherto cool towards the Yugoslavs. Pravda reported that differences between the Yugoslav and Soviet Communist Parties had "considerably lessened" and were "continuing to diminish...
...aside to one of his top aides a few weeks ago Tito said: "The Russians are getting difficult again. This time we've got to swallow it." Western observers, to whom the remark leaked, guessed what Tito was talking about: a few carping lines in Moscow's Pravda drawing attention to the fact that trials are still being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito as no Marxist-Leninist...