Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1962-08-01 / 8. szám

FRATERNITY

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Farkas in a radio broadcast said that the members of .the Government agreed to retain the most sincere economic and cultural relations with every socialist state even after Hungary obtains neutrality. In the morning of November 3, Ambassador Andropov informed the Hungarian Government that the USSR was accepting the proposals for negotiations and was ready to start them on the military aspects immediately. General Pál Maiéter, Defense Minister of the Nagy Government, and his delegation promptly went to Tokol, the headquarters of the Soviet command, where General Malinin, the Soviet leader, after some preliminary talks, suggested that they should all have something to eat and drink before going into details. Shortly thereafter General Serov, the chief of Soviet Security, and his men entered the dining room and immediately seized the members of the Hungai'ian delegation. Almost at the same hour that the Hungarian negotiators were arrested at Soviet headquarters, Arkady Sobolev, Chief Delegate of the USSR, assured the United Nations that the anxiety expressed by a number of delegates over the reports on Soviet troop movements in Hungary was groundless as “negotiations are in progress.” In the eary morning of November 4, the Soviet forces opened a massive attack against Budapest. Cannons, tanks, machine guns started to fire simultaneously all over the city. According to estimates, no less than 2,500 tanks and

1,000 supporting vehicles participated in the attack. At 4:20 a. m., Budapest time, Imre Nagy, speaking over the Budapest radio, made the following announcement:

“This is Imre Nagy speaking. Today at daybreak Soviet troops attacked our capital with the obvious intent of overthrowing the legal democratic Hungarian Government. Our troops are in combat. The Government is at its post.

I notify the people of our country and the entire world of the facts.”