Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-09-01 / 9. szám
FRATERNITY 11 their strongholds ... It was they, the young Hungarian Communists, the metal workers, the workers with grimed hands, who fought the most fiercely against Soviet armored cars.” But it was not the Soviet Union’s massive military intervention alone which made these workers — once sincere Communist Party members —- realize the true nature of their “benefactors”. The Soviet Union attacked the new Hungarian Government, which came into being under the rules established by the Communists, on two fronts. Simultaneously with the military attack Moscow also launched a political offensive to overthrow Nagy’s Government and install a new puppet regime in its place. Originally, it was widely believed that Szolnok, one of the strongholds of the Soviet military forces on the banks of the Tisza River, was the birthplace of the Kádár regime. But, according to evidence presented by Ferenc Váli, author of “Rift and Revolt in Hungary”, and Paul E. Zinner, author of “Revolution in Hungary”, the Kádár regime was actually established in a Carpatho-Ukraine city in the Soviet Union. It is still debated whether Kádár, who previously defied Soviet authorities, went there on his won accord or was abducted. While Kádár’s true story is still to be told, one fact cannot be disputed. The first statement announcing the formation of the Kádár regime was made over the radio station of Szolnok in the very hour the Soviet cannons and guns opened their fire against Budapest. The statement of Ferenc Miinnich, former Hungarian Minister to Moscow, supplemented by a proclamation issued by the Soviet military commander of Szolnok, left no doubt that a small group, headed by Kádár, accepted the role assigned to them by Moscow. Obscurity surrounds the movements of Kádár in the last two days preceding the
