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Hungary's Fight for Freedom includes eyewitness accounts of the fighting by LIFE Correspondent Tim Foote, who was wounded in the Budapest fighting, by French Photographer John Sadovy, whose eloquent pictorial report for LIFE was reprinted in newspapers around the world, and by an unidentified Hungarian rebel...
...been improved by the 36,000 prisoners released from U.B. prisons and the 16,000 Poles repatriated from Soviet slave-labor camps, each with a bitter story of Soviet brutality. To these must be added the serious preachments of the score of Polish correspondents who were in Budapest during the Soviet siege and, unable to publish their stories in their own newspapers for fear of offending the Soviet leaders, are now touring the country telling workers, peasants and students what happened in Hungary. Russian street names are torn down, and banners appear: "Stop Soviet Domination." At Bydgoszcz last week...
...Poland's present acceptance of Gomulka that prevents another Poznan riot from flaring up into a general revolt like that in Hungary. But if such a revolt should take place, Poland's intellectuals, students and soldiers would play a key part just as their counterparts did in Budapest. But what would Gomulka's role be? Would he play Nagy or Kadar? The answer to the question lies somewhere in Gomulka's curious balance between Communism and patriotism...
...tiger that was the Hungarian revolution refused to be killed. Defiantly, Delegate Sandor Eckmann of the Budapest Central Workers' Council told Kadar to his face: "The real power in Hungary today, apart from the armed forces, is in the hands of the workers' councils. They have the masses at their disposal." It was a struggle in which neither side had the upper hand, and the result was misery, but not surrender...
What Kadar feared most was the establishment of a nationwide coalition of workers' councils that might turn into a kind of parliament. When, at midweek, an organization calling itself the "National Central Workers' Council" began to set up shop in Budapest, Kadar's police moved in on it. Two days later, worried by the proliferation of clandestine newssheets, the police seized every duplicating machine they could lay hands...