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 ...

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 ...