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...cheeked Gomulka, who had tried to steer a middle course between the extremists of both sides, was stung into an electrifying attack on the Stalinists. "Why, Comrade Mijal," asked Gomulka, "do you all the time insist on including references to the Soviet Union supremacy? We had the example of Rakosi and Gero always using such phrases, and it ended with Soviet tanks at the head of Budapest streets." Confusion fell among the Stalinists when 'one of their number, Franciszek Mazur, a recognized Kremlin agent who flits regularly between Moscow and Warsaw, suddenly switched his support to Gomulka, indicating that...
Among the chief architects of the terror that reigned in Hungary between 1949 and 1953 were a father and son. When Stalin ordered bullet-headed Party Boss Matyas Rakosi to liquidate the top party and government leadership, from Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk down, on the grounds of Titoism, Rakosi knew where to turn for help. His man: Defense Minister Mihaly Farkas, a longtime Stalinist. In a key position in the AVH (security police) at that time was Farkas' son, Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Farkas...
Dividing to Conquer. The slogan of the Kadar regime is "Order, Peace and Collaboration," but its strategy has been to divide the country by cracking down hard on industrial workers and intellectuals and building up the peasantry, who gave the Russians relatively the least trouble last October. Rakosi had been tough on the peasants ("Every Kulak is guilty of something"), but Kadar has redistributed the national income in favor of the peasants, even made the hated farm collectivization program voluntary. For the first time nylon stockings and suede shoes are within reach of peasant girls and boys who, without being...
Rival Spirits. Most of the actual work of consolidating the regime seems to have been transferred to Gyorgy Marosan, 49. a flat-nosed, gate-mouthed Socialist Party renegade who, like Kadar, had been through ex-Party Boss Rakosi's torture mill in seven years in a Communist prison. Though Marosan appeared to have more spirit than Kadar, his appeals to sullen Hungarian audiences to help save the economy had an unrealistic sound. More in the spirit of those audiences, though no longer perhaps within their capacity, were the posters, plastered on Budapest walls last week, exhorting Hungarians...
...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...