Word: rakosi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in kindergarten, the Soviet indoctrination of Magyar moppets is going on apace. The daily Magyar Nemzet reported an interview with one student of dialectical materialism, four-year-old Robert Rev. Robert quickly identified the portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi on the classroom walls. Said he: "They are discussing how to prevent war, and planning the construction of more factories, more kindergartens and more shops...
...double life as a police informer, traitor, spy and conspirator planted in Hungary's Communist Party. He said that he had worked in succession for Dictator Horthy's police, Hitler's Gestapo, and U.S. Intelligence. This year he had engaged in a plot to overthrow the Rakosi regime by force, on orders of Yugoslav Marshal Tito's Interior Minister, Alexander Rankovich...
...trial was held in the gaily decorated, red marble assembly hall of the metalworkers' union, in which Rajk a matter of months ago used to appear with Rakosi to deliver political speeches. Rajk had been in jail since his arrest in June, but he looked fit. Avidly, he piled self-accusation upon self-accusation...
Rajk said that he then agreed to join the plot against Rakosi and other Hungarian Communists. "Rankovich told me,"Rajk said, "to annihilate them physically; that is, in plain Hungarian, to kill them...
Probably the peasants of Gyor and of all Hungary would never know. The Communist Party, from its earliest days, has been wedded to conspiracy and treachery. Its quest for absolute power corrupts its members; none knows whether his comrade is a traitor. Maybe Rajk was a spy; maybe Rakosi...