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...Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky et al. But from the tales of refugees and monitored Red radio broadcasts, Western agents concluded that a Russian purge tribunal has gone to Hungary to root out "suspected Zionists" from the strongly Jewish (90% in the top echelons) government of Communist Premier Matyas Rakosi, who is himself...
...Matyas Rakosi...
...after Christmas, Hungary suffered one of the worst train wrecks in its history; 20 were killed, more than 100 injured. But few Hungarians knew of it. According to later reports, Matyas Rakosi's Communist officials simply executed the train's engineer and suppressed all news of the incident. The first the Hungarians heard of the disaster was over a Voice of America broadcast...
...emigration, were reported to be alarmed. There were indications, also, that Prague-style purges might spread to other satellites. In Budapest, a Communist newspaper proclaimed that "Zionism" was rampant in Hungary, and called for action against it. This would take some doing, since Hungary's Communist Dictator Matyas Rakosi and his two chief lieutenants are Jews...
...Purge. 36. In nearby Hungary, the puppet National Assembly dutifully crowned as Premier the hard-bitten Communist revolutionary: 1. Matyas Rakosi. 4. Georgi Dimitrov 5. Edvard Kardelj...