Word: rakosi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Betrayal. According to the story vouched for in Britain's Time & Tide by reputable Hungarians now in exile, Kadar conveyed to Rajk the promise of Party Boss Matyas Rakosi that, if he made a confession of Titoist tendencies in court, his life would be spared. Rajk confessed-only to be shot anyway. When Kadar protested the betrayal, Rakosi, who is credited with a macabre sense of humor, reportedly played back a tape recording of the conversations between Kadar and his executed friend, to show that it incriminated both. Some time later Kadar himself was arrested by Rakosi...
...been a castrated servant of Communism ever since. Kadar, a onetime streetcar conductor, could have beaten it out of Hungary during the revolution, like thousands of lesser AVH victims; instead he reported to the Russian headquarters at Szolnok. The Russians (on Rakosi's advice, some reports say) promptly sent him back as Premier and Party Boss in place of the deposed Imre Nagy. They calculated that as an AVH martyr Kadar would command public sympathy and support, and being clay in their hands, his regime could be molded to any shape desired. The 60-odd days of Janos Kadar...
...with the Red army in control of Hungary, bulletheaded Communist Party Boss Matyas Rakosi, a onetime Kun lieutenant, set out to grab power. Using what he called salami tactics-a slice at a time-Rakosi cut off his opponents. Kovacs was sent to Siberia (where, after nearly nine years, he was released a few months ago). In 1947, with his four-year-old son held hostage, the Smallholders' Premier Ferenc Nagy, the last hope of a free Hungary, was forced to resign and flee into exile...
Last July, after nearly a decade of Red tyranny, Rakosi himself was forced to resign as party boss after a youth club in Budapest proclaimed openly that "it is high time an end be made to this regime of bureaucrats and gendarmes." Three months later that wish came to reality with the fury of gunfire in Budapest's streets...
...acted exactly like Rakosi's old bullyboys. In one day they arrested 400 "rebels and criminals." Five of the arrested were condemned to death and one executed, said Radio Budapest, hinting at mass trials to come. Western sources gave a grimmer estimate of AVH efficiency: over a period of "several days," Western diplomats reported, 241 persons had been executed by summary courts-martial, 170 of them in Budapest...