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

1962-12-01 / 12. szám

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FRATERNITY

Paul Nadanyi:

THE REVOLT

THAT ROCKED THE KREMLIN

(Continuation)

“The denial of possibilities for independent existence and development to an historic nation like Hungary constitutes not only a violation of the fundamental rights of the people of Hungary, but also a deadly challenge to the very principles upon which the United Nations itself is founded.”

Adlai Stevenson

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THE CONTINUING RESISTANCE

The Kádár regime’s main support and the Soviet Politburo’s main control force in Hungary has been the Soviet Army. Matthew M. Mes- trovic, a member of the faculty of New York University, reporting on a visit to Hungary five years after the uprising, notes in the December 29, 1961, issue of “Commonweal”, a New York weekly, that most physical reminders of the 1956 uprising have been erased. “The crumbling buildings shattered by Russian tanks and artillery have been repaired. The machine gun bullet holes that peppered the walls have been plastered and the facades freshly painted. All that remains is a growing rancor eating at the heart . . The report then says: “You see them everywhere, the Russian masters of Hungary. Blue-eyed, pink-cheeked Russian recruits in brown uniforms ride past in trucks and jeeps. They stand guard at military installations bearing signs in Russian. They stroll through the streets, gazing at store displays. They are unmistakably part of the Hungarian scene, and yet they remain foreign and apart. I saw no Hungarian girls with Russian soldiers, no Russian and Hungarian soldiers in comradely