The way to get control of a country Matyas Rakosi once wrote, is to demand a little more each day, like cutting up a salami, thin slice after thin slice.” Rakosalami tactics made Hungary one of ...

Last week Deputy Premier Matyas Rakosi admitted that Hungary’s plan was a failure—in agriculture, coal mining and heavy industry. Said Rakosi: “The hardest nut to crack is agriculture.

Mátyás Rákosi (9 March 1892 – 5 February 1971) was a Hungarian communist politician who was the de facto leader of Hungary from 1947 to 1956. He served first as General Secretary of the ...

The Hungarian leader, who had been in control since 1949, was Mátyás Rákosi, a hard-line communist fully under the control of Moscow. Rákosi’s secret police (the AVH) created a climate of ...