The Hungarian Student, 1961

YOU STILL HAVE DOUBTS

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the country by the Rákosi clique which had decisive influence in the affairs of the country and the party.”

( Radio speech by Janos Kadar. November 11, 1956).

“After the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the brotherly Communist Parties of the People’s Democracies undertook to correct the mistakes committed in the past.

Unfortunately, circumstances turned in a different direction in Hungary. The former Hungarian leadership, which has been guilty of such serious errors, did not appreciate the requirements of changing times and persistently delayed action, thereby inevitably provoking the dissatisfaction of the masses.”

( From a 1956, November 6, delivered in Moscow, by Suslov, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union).

LATER:

“It has been established during the process that Imre Nagy and his accomplices played a leading role in the preparations and unleashing of the 1956 October counterrevolutionary uprising.”

(Judgement in the Imre Nagy process, announcement of the Hungarian Ministry of Justice.

June 17, 1958).

EARLIER:

“Imre Nagy lives in a resort of his choice.”

(Janos Kadar's statement to foreign journalists on April 6, 1958).

“Our party swears on his honour to create a purer new world based on the highest moral principles.”

( Nepszabadsag.

June 15, 1958).

Forty-eight hours LATER: “The Council of the People's Tribunal of the Supreme Court after having carefully weighed the gravity of the crimes, and having considered the aggravating and extenuating circumstances, declared the defendants guilty of the criminal actions which were subjects of the accusation during the process, and therefore condemned Imre Nagy to death, Ferenc Danath to twelve years’ imprisonment, Miklós Gimes to death, Zoltán Tildy to six years' imprisonment, Pal Maleter to death, Sandoi Kopácsi to life imprisonment, Doctor Josef Szilagyi to death, Ferenc Jánosi to eight years imprisonment and Miklós Vásárhelyi to five years’ imprisonment. The judgement is binding and without appeal. The death sentences were carried out.”

(From the announcement of the Hungarian Ministry of Justice. June 17,

1958).

“The fait accompli has a calming effect on the people.”

( Chief Prosecutor Szenasi’s statement to foreign journalists. June 20,

1958).

EARLIER:

“The government will not tolerate persecution of the

workers under any pretext because of their activities during the recent events.”

(The programme of the Hungarian Revolutionary Workers-Peasant Government. November 4, 1956).

LATER:

"Our state authorities must be implacable and ruthless with every enemy of the people whatever his rank or motives. If we do not accuse him of his crimes in October we will be giving him the opportunity to repeat his crimes today.”

( From an article by Laszlo Szabo, Benevolence-Severity, in Nepszabadsag, May 15,1957).

EARLIER:

“We are determined to eradicate the mistakes of the past. None of us is inspired by the spirit of revenge and neither will we tolerate it in any local organization or functionary.”

(Speech by Janos Kadar. November 12, 1956).

“Let us read, let us study the demands and appeals of the University Revolutionary Council of the Writers’ Union... They demand amnesty for the participants of

the popular movement... The measures taken by the Government prove that it adopted these demands.”

( Nepszabadsag.

November 18, 1956).

LATER:

“The leaders of the counterrevolutionary group of twentyone members in Miskolc were condemned to death.”

( Nepszabadsag.

May 17, 1957).

“The opportunistic liberalism in some of our judges is the fundamental reason for general distrust in the Courts. In some cases the judges pass ridiculously light sentences on the enraged enemies of our people.”

(Article in Nepszabadsag, “We want a militant attitude to class struggle in the courts”.

May 19, 1957).

"The Tribunal condemned Pal Kobelacs to death and Karoly Kobelacs to life imprisonment.”

“Agostan Praszmayer was condemned to death.”

“Sándor Kiss and Sándor Szrog were executed.”

( Nepszabadsag.

May 23, 1957).

“Twenty-five year old Ilona Toth, medical student, and her two companions, twenty-eight years old Miklós Gyöngyösi, and twenty-six year old Ferenc Gönci were executed together Friday morning on the 28th June after her appeal for mercy was refused. Twentyfive year old Feienc Kovács was executed at the same time. The court of the first instance had condemned Kovács to ten years’ imprisonment.”

(In view of the fact that the Hungarian newspaper announcing these judgements is not in our possession, we adopted this communiqué from the “Magyar Hirado” published in Vienna, edition of July 3, 1957).

Laszlo Rajk perished by the hands of criminals who rose out of the slime of the “cult of personality”. The falsification of history , the fawning, the carieerism, the disregard for national heritage and lawlessnes were all created in the degeneration in the “cult of personality”.

(Speech by Ferenc Munnich at the funeral of Laszlo

Rajk on October 6th, 1956j.

Rákosi and his clique, through their criminal and blind politics degredated the party into a means of oppression and national captivity.

(Speech by Janos Kadar on November 1st, 1956).

This Janos Kadar and Ferenc Munnich who, at the beginning of October 1956, condemned the crimes of the previous party leadership in the above terms, which hardly could have been “exagerated", were the Prime Minister and the First Secretary of the Party, respectively, at the time of the trial of Imre Nagy.

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