Word: szabadsag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police action cannot change a people's heart. A hint of Kadar's despair at overcoming the Gandhi-like spirit of resistance in Hungary was given in Nep Szabadsag recently. Children, said the party newspaper, should be separated from their parents and brought up in "child villages," where they could be taught "socialist patriotism and discipline." This was the Communist way of saying that it was a struggle that could go on for generations...
...ideological struggle, Kadar obviously meant his failure to persuade the people that his regime was good for them. In several areas the workers' councils refused to accept his decree outlawing them. According to Kadar's official Nep Szabadsag, Heves county, northeast of Budapest, was virtually a rebel stronghold whose villagers "just jeer at the order and carry on their activities ..." But Kadar's biggest headache was the coal miners. Less than half of Hungary's 100,000 miners were at work, and coal production was down an estimated 70%. Last week those coal miners...
...news incensed Hungary. On this day even the diehard Communists producing the party newspaper Nep Szabadsag went on strike. Even though the Russians had brought railroad workers from Russia to run the trains, the trains were stopped...