Word: rakosi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late 1945 was unsatisfactory. It did not give enough information to serve the Communists as a record of the population's political reliability. On the basis of a new census completed Jan. 20, a card index for exclusive government use is now being set up in Communist Boss Rakosi's Central Registry offices...
...people are regarded as opposed to the regime by birth, even though they may never have engaged in active opposition. "Class enemies," on the other hand, may come from a long line of workers or peasants. They include all the known antiCommunists, regardless of origin. Their eventual destination, when Rakosi's overworked policemen get around to them, is the jail, the concentration camp, or the crematory...
...Rakosi also put the tab on Hungarian canines. A government decree issued last week restricts breeding to purebred, pedigreed dogs, which make up less than 1% of Hungary's 1,000,000 canine population. Henceforth, all mongrel males over one year old are to be sterilized. Dog owners who violate the law are liable to as much as six months in prison. Quipped one Budapest wit: "They want to kill the purebred humans and save the purebred dogs...
...wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...
Ever since the war, Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has pitted the Roman Catholic Church against the Communists who run his country. Communist Boss Rakosi had tried every trick in the trade-from threatening to confiscate the church's property to withholding newsprint from the Catholic press-to shut him up, but up to Christmastide not even Rakosi dared to touch the Cardinal's person. Last month he clapped Mindszenty's private secretary into jail for "treason." This week, under pressure from Moscow and presumably armed with a full "confession" from the secretary, Rakosi arrested Hungary...