Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series if events in other parts of the world"--notably in Korea, Formosa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Cyprus--and that "even in Europe itself the central political problem of Germany remains unsolved." The latter, he felt, is particularly dangerous now because of the possibility of a revolt in East Germany...
...restless and articulate Hungarian intellectuals who sparked the revolt of Oct. 23, mostly young Communists, were not thinking in terms of Lenin, but of the Hungarian patriots who revolted against the Habsburg monarchy in 1848. The street and rooftop fighters, who took over the struggle from the intellectuals, performed their self-appointed tasks with a valor, pride and gallantry that is found only in the revolutionary traditions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Then, as their strength was exhausted in the battle against modern steel, the fight was taken over by the stolid nerveless men of the factories, inspired...
Janos Feher was one of the score of young intellectuals who, without being Aware of it, set the stage for the Oct. 23 revolt...
...were investigated by the AVH, the Hungarian secret police. But the police did nothing to them because the students and intellectuals enjoy a special place in Communist regimes, providing the reservoir of skill and talent on which the bureaucracy continuously draws. A friend remembers Janos as saying before the revolt: "The workers and the peasants hate the regime because they know it is wrong and evil. They accept this and go on working. But we intellectuals are paid to lie about the regime. The workers know we lie, and so they hate us too. But the truth is we hate...
Rebellion. The Turks ruled the Magyars for 170 years, and when at last in the 17th century they were driven out, the remaining Magyars found themselves a vassal state in the empire of the Austrian Habsburgs.* In 1848, when all Europe was arumble with the thunder of revolt, young Poet Sandor Petofi and Lajos Kossuth, the lawyer son of a Magyarized Slovak family of the Hungarian petty nobility, together sparked Hungary's most successful revolution. Poet Petofi died in the fight. Lawyer Kossuth went on to proclaim himself the head of an independent Hungary, but his triumph was short...