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When the package arrived at their Long Island home, the Bohlings opened it carefully, hands trembling, then looked at the contents in mild dismay. Said Mrs. Bohling: "This was the stuff you have to cook. The other didn't have to be cooked. It was like a salami...
Join with non-Communists in a coalition and then proceed, by various methods, to take over." What methods? "Salami tactics," says Rakosi-"demanding a little more each day, like cutting up a salami, thin slice after thin slice...
...only in limited audiences. Any discussion of the dictatorship of the proletariat as our final aim would have caused great alarm among our coalition partners and hindered our efforts to win over a majority of the petty bourgeoisie-even of the working masses." In one field, Rakosi ignored salami tactics, insisting on the whole sausage right at the start: control of the Ministry of the Interior, with the State Security Office, or secret police. "We held this completely in our hands from the first day of its existence. Our party demanded the leadership and tolerated no respecting of coalition-proportion...
...political police headquarters, a banquet was laid out: bread with no butter, salami and a bottle of lemonade for each returning traveler. "Much better than American chocolate," insisted one loyal Communist woman to Zdenka...
...eager to eat this bread and salami," said Zdenka, "so I walked over to the waiting hall. Suddenly Mr. Benes came over and asked me why I was so sad and didn't eat. Mr. Benes was my teacher. Last year he failed me because I refused to study Communist government. I didn't have the courage to tell him I couldn't eat because I had come back, so I said I was struck by the sadness of a mother whose son had not returned. He said: 'It is good. If she had brought...