Word: rakosi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their reputations posthumously "rehabilitated." The Cominform which expelled him has been dissolved. Molotov has resigned. All these things, Tito indicated, make for a good start, but he still" has some names on his list. He has a score to settle with an old enemy, Hungarian Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi. And the Yugoslav party newspaper Borba has made clear Tito's displeasure with France's Maurice Thorez. Little Albania has not yet properly recanted...
This has not prevented Hungarians who hate the rule of Communist Boss Rakosi from attempting to cross into Austria. Some have tried to detonate the delicate personnel mines by driving cats in front of them. Others have laid wooden planks on the wire. Austrian authorities estimate that some 6,000 have got across safely. Of late only one in three attempts is successful, and at least 500 have been killed by mines and border guards. In the cemetery in the little border village of Deutschkreutz are buried 100 who did not make it to freedom...
Austria has made numerous protests, without effect, about what Austrians call the "murder fences." But last week Austria was astonished to receive a note from the Hungarian Foreign Office saying that within three months the entire frontier would be cleared of "border obstacles." While Austrians were speculating whether Rakosi or the Russians were responsible, squads of Hungarian soldiers began dismantling the barbed wire. A new thought occurred to the Austrians: if the Iron Curtain is really raised, how will Rakosi keep his Hungarians at home? Said Austrian Interior Minister Oskar Helmer: "Soon we will have all of Hungary in Austria...
...Rakosi was naturally reluctant. He dutifully found a Beria-type scapegoat, his own ex-police chief. Peter Gabor, and blamed him for all the misunderstanding. But when Tito demanded $200 million as Yugoslavia's bill against Hungary-war reparations, damages claimed as Hungary's part in the Cominform boycott-Rakosi offered only a measly $20 million. Tito indignantly refused...
...during the winter months, Rakosi's position deteriorated. After Khrushchev's denunciation of the "cult of personality," Hungarian rank and filers began muttering complaints of Little Stalin Rakosi. At the spring meeting of the Hungarian Writers' Federation, Rakosi was called a "murderer" and a "Judas," and on a vote of confidence only 20 out of 180 writers supported the party. Rakosi's one advantage is that the Russians seem unable to find anyone to replace him. But when the news came that Tito had been invited to visit Moscow in June, Rakosi-began to act like...