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...next morning Nagy was taken to see Premier Kadar. Nothing is known of what took place during the interview, but Kadar may have urged Nagy to join him in a coalition government, and been refused. The next that was heard of Nagy was a cryptic announcement over Radio Budapest that Nagy had expressed a wish to live in a people's democracy, and that he and his companions had "departed to the territory of the Rumanian People's Republic...
...known whether Nagy was in fact in Rumania or, like thousands of other Hungarians, on his way to Siberia. But the Russians may yet have need of Imre Nagy's services to pacify the Hungarians. Day after his capture, the General Workers' Council of Greater Budapest demanded that Nagy be brought back and installed as head of the government, asked that a three-member delegation be allowed to visit Nagy-"wherever...
...After the 1939 partition of Poland, he had supervised the deportation of 1,500,000 Poles and issued the infamous Order No. 001223, which outlined the proper procedures for executions and deportations from the Baltic states. General Serov, now the Cabinet-ranking boss of Soviet secret police, flew into Budapest last week...
...girl deportee, sent back because she was ill, reported that she had been held with 1,500 other young Hungarians in a Soviet army barracks at Uzhgorod in the Ukraine. Two young boys who escaped from a camp in the woods in the same area turned up in Budapest with hollow cheeks, and heads shaved like Russian bezprizornye (waifs...
...wholesale deportation was not Russia's only technique for reducing a people. The Hungarian peasants who had been bringing food into Budapest and giving it freely to the workers were cut off, and all food was channeled through government distribution centers. Puppet Premier Janos Kadar tried desperately to get support behind his regime. He got nowhere with Imre Nagy (see above). And he was making little progress with ex-Secretary-General Bela Kovacs of the Smallholders' Party, or with the Peasant Party's Istvan Bibo. During one of Radar's bumbling appeals over Radio Budapest, studio...