Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-09-01 / 9. szám
10 FRATERNITY Paul Nadanyi: THE REVOLT THAT ROCKED THE KREMLIN (Continuation) “Tyranny is in your food, your drink, Tyranny is in your mouth, your nose, You smell it, taste it, warm or cold, Indoors or out, by night or day. Where there is tyranny And all is vain . . Gyula Illyés 7. THE REPRESSION “This was the hour of horror and brutality” — reported the Budapest correspondent of “The Observer” (London) — “it was Sunday, the fourth of November. For three days Budapest had gloried in its triumph. But now the storm was coming back . . . Each tank was accompanied by a small detachment of the M. Y. D. (Soviet secret police). Their orders were to crush and to exterminate . . The Budapest correspondent of the “France- Soir” (Paris) gave the following account: “From my windows I saw the horizon light up with sinister flames. The ground shook and for three hours one explosion followed upon the other. The Russians entered into Budapest without any difficulty. The roads leading into the town were merely guarded by a total of about thirty Hungarian tanks. The battle raged right in the midst of a town of one million. Dwellings, factories, barracks served as battle lines. The principal resistance centers were working districts. The targets which the Soviet attacked with particular rage and fury were districts inhabited by workers, groups of workmen’s dwellings and factories, where the Hungarian Communists had
