Word: rakosi
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...Honor the Foreign Minister of Hungary, the peasants of Gyor county brought their finest gifts: flour, bread, wine and suckling pigs. They were proud that Laszlo Rajk, the second man to Matyas Rakosi in the Communist Party, should head the election lists in their district. Rajk thanked them with a simple speech, in calm and measured accents...
...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...
Tardiness on the part of factory workers and state employees, Rakosi went on, has greatly increased. Some factories have separate time clocks which register 7 a.m. all day long for the benefit of latecomers. The number of absentees and sick has risen to an unprecedented height. In one week, for example, 500 employees of the State Cattle Administration were absent on sick leave. When visited by supervisors sent around by the state-controlled trade union, only one of the absentees was home-and he was celebrating his wedding...
Managerial personnel, Rakosi said, "do not have sufficient determination to create the necessary discipline with iron hands . . . They try to avoid the thankless duty of disciplining their workers and instead seek to establish a sort of 'good fellow' spirit by which they ensure their own popularity." From now on, he concluded, "managers and foremen who tolerate bad work, bad discipline and laziness . . . will be relentlessly eliminated...