Word: rakosi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rakosi is the real No. 1 man in Hungary, even though he is only Deputy Vice Premier. The front man until last week was Premier Lajos Dinnyes (rhymes with in mesh). Rakosi replaced him with Puppet Istvan Dobi (rhymes with Gobi). Both are members of what is left of the Smallholders Party; both dirked their party by working for the Communists...
Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi had a painful fortnight. He had had to deal with a counterrevolution in a stadium, a Premier who tried to go AWOL, a peasantry that insisted on owning its farms, a proletariat that insisted on higher wages, and -worst of all-a Christian who prayed for Communists...
Political Football. Ferencvaros is the name of a middle-class district in Budapest, also the name of Hungary's oldest and best soccer club. The team's rooters are anti-Red. Two weeks ago Ferencvaros played the all-Communist Iron Workers, Rakosi's own club. Into the Ferencvaros stadium, on Ulloi Ut, crowded 25,000 fans. Rakosi's team fell behind. Inflamed Ferencvaros rooters began to shout: "Kill those Communist...
Next day the Ferencvaros team was suspended for four weeks, its stadium closed. The official announcement spoke of "enemies of Hungarian democracy who attack our constitution through sports." Even though Budapesters boycotted all soccer games, Ferencvaros knuckled under. The team "applied to Comrade Rakosi for assistance," asked "the democratic camp of the [soccer] association to eliminate the reactionaries...
...lying." The Rakosi expropriation began with a police raid. At around dinner time on Sept. 18, police entered the Budapest apartment of MAORT's president, Paul Ruedemann, and its director and technical adviser, George Bannantine. The two were taken to the forbidding grey stone pile at 60 Andrassy Ut which had once been headquarters for Hungary's branch of Hitler's Gestapo and is now used by the Hungarian version of the Soviet MVD. Three hours later questioning began...