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...close to a decade. That act became the symbol of the 1956 uprising, a quasi spontaneous revolt against Soviet occupation (the Red Army had liberated Hungary from the Nazis in 1945, then refused to go home) and against the dictatorial rule of the Hungarian Communist Party led by Matyas Rakosi...
When George Lorinczi, a Hungarian-born Washington lawyer, visited Budapest last month, he heard racial epithets on the street directed at people around him. In the anti-Communist tirades of self-professed liberals, there were pointed references to the predominance of Jews in the regime of dictator ! Matyas Rakosi in the early 1950s. "People are now rolling words off their tongues that would have made them jailbait two years ago," says Lorinczi...
Died. Matyas Rakosi, 78, Hungarian Communist leader during the 1940s and '50s; in Gorky, U.S.S.R. A ruthless Stalinist, Rakosi was known and hated for his brutal skill in disposing of opponents. After Stalin's death, Rakosi slickly adjusted to the new line. He remained in power until 1956, was forced to resign, and just before the Hungarian uprising, fled to the Soviet Union...
Hungary's brutal onetime Stalinist boss Matyas Rakosi ended up badly. In 1956, he was deposed by Nikita Khrushchev as part of a destalinization program and spirited off to the Soviet Union. According to unofficial reports from Russia, he died in 1963 in the Kremlin hospital...
...past year, rumors have been reaching the West that Rakosi is very much alive and living with his Mongolian wife in Southern Siberia. There have also been reports that Rakosi, now 78 and ailing, is anxious to go home to die. According to reports from Budapest, the Hungarian Central Committee last week decided that the old Stalinist would be allowed to return on the condition that he refrain from political activities. Hungarian Leader Janos Kadar has achieved such a measure of economic and political stability that Rakosi's return no longer poses any threat...