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...Club. A voice in the crowd shouted a line from a Petofi poem: "We vow we can never be slaves." Idol Smashing. The Petofi spirit spread like wildfire. All over Budapest there were demonstrations. Student manifestoes demanded religious freedom, the release of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, the public trial of Rakosi and his lieutenants, sweeping economic reforms. One demanded that the Russians explain what they had done with Hungarian uranium. The Marseillaise and the Kossuth anthem (after Kossuth, another hero of 1848) were sung in the streets. Thousands of cadets, later joined by 800 Hungarian officers, swung out of the military...
...Soviet Union "on a basis of complete equality," and promised a reform government with "widest possible national and democratic" elements. Kadar said there would be a "deepening of democratization." Pleaded Radio Budapest: "Tell the youth we have a new leadership. All the new party secretaries are in prison under Rakosi. Tell the youths there is no danger." Rumors flashed through Hungary that the Russians were forcing Nagy at pistol point to make his announcements, that he had been arrested and the Russian army command (set up at the battered Astoria Hotel) was in sole charge of Budapest...
...Matyas Rakosi as boss of the Hungarian party. The cast of characters pointed to an urgent top-level conference on Communist Party affairs, an ideological communion at Yalta. The inclusion of ex-Heretic Tito suggested that he was being treated not as an outsider, but an insider in dealing with serious matters of Communist politics and dogma...
...Between the gunshots at Belje last week, a student of Belgrade-Moscow relations imagined he heard Khrushchev saying to Tito: "All right. We admitted we were wrong about you. We came down here and apologized. We got others to apologize and resume good relations. We had your old enemy Rakosi kicked out of the Hungarian Party and Chervenkov out of the Bulgarian. Your pal Gomulka was rehabilitated in Poland, Rajk in Hungary and Kostov in Bulgaria. We dissolved the Cominform. We had the parts of the Slansky trial that reflected on you struck from the record. We paid...
...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...