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81by Héderváry, Claire de“…Principal contributor(s): Leslie Munro This letter reveals Soviet Union hypocrisy, championing the Cuban and Congolese cased while brutally suppressing the struggle for independence of Hungarian people, maintaining troops on Hungarian soil, dominating Hungarian economic life and voting down all General Assembly resolutions calling for the withdrawal of Soviet troops and free elections. …”
Published 1960
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82by Héderváry, Claire de“…Principal contributor(s): American Friends of the Captive Nations Chapters: Soviet Economic Exploitation; Socialist Transformation of Agriculture; Soviet Military Intervention in Hungary 1960; The People's Spiritual Resistance: It is not only peasants who resist; it is also teachers in schools; parents in their homes; the clergy in churches; students in the University, youth on the farms and in the factory and yes, even Communist party members in the privacy of their families. …”
Published 1960
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83by Héderváry, Claire de“…The Catholic Seminary in Budapest and most of the seminaries in Hungary have been closed, and in the remainder, compulsory courses in Marxist philosophy and economic theory as well as the atheism have been instituted. …”
Published 1959
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84by Héderváry, Claire de“…In the case of Cuba, the Soviet Union set itself as a champion against any "economic aggression" and on the side of any small county struggling for independence, against colonialism and foreign exploitation. …”
Published 1960
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85by Héderváry, Claire de“…Tibor Pásztory was an advisor to Zoltán Tildy, Minister of State, on economic affairs. Pásztory made a statement about the Imre Nagy-government and events in Parliament during the second part of the revolution.…”
Published 1957
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86by Héderváry, Claire de“…Principal contributor(s): István Bibó István Bibó, Minister of State in the Imre Nagy government and a former University Professor (in jail at the time of publishing of this memorandum), proposes a four-point solution that he believes expresses the wish of the Hungarian people and which presents a possible way out of the crisis and a democratic solution without hurting basic Soviet interests: 1) For the West not to drop the Hungarian question from its agenda. 2) For all countries of the Soviet bloc, the complete elimination of Stalinist political practices. 3) Accepting a "third way" of economic and political life that is a democratic form of socialism 4) Hungarian people have a duty to carry the flag of their revolution high, the flag of a free future for the whole of humanity.…”
Published 1957
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