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...name of Bela Kovacs was something for Nagy to conjure with. A husky, muscular peasant from Pecs, a good speaker, Kovacs was the organizational genius of the Smallholders until arrested in 1947, forced to "confess" and shipped off to Siberia. Earlier this year, after nine years in Soviet prison camps, he returned to Pecs, where he was living quietly, avoiding politics. His appointment was as much a surprise to him as to everyone else in Hungary. Said a Hungarian: "He comes as close as anyone we know to being an anti-Communist." The question was, had nine years of prison...
...Calvinists are an important (21%) minority.) Early Days: after commercial school, became a locksmith's apprentice, then a mechanic. When World War I broke out, big, burly (200 lbs.) Imre was drafted into Austro-Hungarian army, wounded on Italian front, later captured by Russians, who sent him to Siberia. When the Czarist regime cracked he joined the Bolsheviks, was captured while fighting White Guards, escaped. Carried revolution to Hungary as minor lieutenant of famed Hungarian Communist Bela Kun, who ruled Hungary for 133 days in 1919. When the revolution failed, Bela Kun fled to Russia (where he was executed...
...sizable increases in production in the Iron Curtain countries-based on their own somewhat questionable statistics. Soviet Russia's three big agricultural areas this year expect to produce 60 million tons of grain v. 36 million tons before Nikita Khrushchev plowed into the virgin lands of Kazakhstan and Siberia...
...climate grew still warmer, it melted much bigger masses of ice in Siberia and North America. The water released raised the sea level, and the Atlantic Ocean ate its way southward over the "Doggerland" in the basin of the North Sea. By examining peat from the sea bottom, Dr. Godwin can tell the date when the salt water flowed over each...
...reading Khrushchev's heartbroken statement about Stalin's monstrous acts, I was reminded of the night of June 14, 1941 when 60,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians-more than half of them children and women-were loaded into barred cattle carriages. Destination: Siberia. Has anybody heard of the return of these people...