Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-11-01 / 11. szám
FRATERNITY 9 their guns against unarmed student demonstrators and when the regime called in Soviet troops to quell the uprising, the Party intellectuals realized that the Party, as it existed, could not reform, as its power depended on totalitarian tyranny. The third and final reason for the Party’s disintegration was that the leadership of the Party itself became divided. The new members of the Politburo and the Central Committee, Imre Nagy and his closest friends and collaborators, had different aims from the left-overs of the Rákosi-Gerő clique. The Stalinists wanted Nagy to give a new facade to the Party, but hoped to continue their practices. Nagy wanted a clear break with the past. The Soviet Union’s announcement on October 30 that the Kremlin would inaugurate new policies toward the satellites pulled out the prop from under the Stalinists. The ideological differences were resolved in the Central Committee by the approval of the Government’s decision to abolish the one-party system. Kádár was fully aware that this decision required the complete reorganization of the Communist Party, which became an empty shell. But instead of reorganization of the Party, on November 4, when the Soviet armies started their massive military attack, the Kádár group announced the formation of a new Communist Party. The program of the new Party, however, left no doubt that it would differ from the defunct Party only in name. The old Party’s name was the “Hungarian Workers’ Party.” The new Party was launched under the name of “The Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party.” The new Communist Party’s most important task was made clear in its proclaimed 15-point program. The proclamation called for the restoration of the Party State. This required the
