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As was only fitting in a nation that prides itself on scientific social organization, the rampage was carefully controlled. Early in the week the Soviet press published meticulous accounts of the damage -mainly broken windows-inflicted on the Soviet embassy in Bonn by German students protesting the execution of Hungarian...
Inside Hungary, they have been silent ever since. Some were done to death. On the Soviet execution list (TIME, June 30), alongside Imre Nagy, stood the name of Miklos Gimes, ex-Stalinist journalist who became one of Hungary's leading anti-Reds. Countless others are in prison, notably Hungary...
The most passionate outbursts, because they came from those who still wanted to believe in a U.S.S.R. change of heart, occurred among the neutralist powers and Europe's left-wing fringe. Avanti, organ of Pietro Nenni's red-tinged Italian Socialist Party, proclaimed that the executions "bring us...
Angered by persistent Peking attacks on his policy of "national Communism," Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito abandoned his former view of the Chinese Reds as a moderating influence on the Kremlin, last week implicitly accused Mao & Co. of being warmongers who boasted that "if 300 million [Chinese] were killed, 300...
"Broken & Bitter." To pragmatic Nikita Khrushchev, what all this meant was that liberalization was a failure and that it was time to revert to a hard line with the satellites. He may have been pushed to this conclusion, but on the record of his career of reversing himself, he was...