Out of the chaos of Hungary's first "five days of freedom," when everybody could plainly see that the Communists had no true strength anywhere in the country, sprang a new kind of organization, the "workers' councils." They were modeled on Communist Tito's workers' guilds. Their leaders were untrained in rebellion and unskilled in maneuver, but their strength was that they could genuinely claim to speak for the people. Ever since the Russians put Puppet Janos Kadar on the throne, he has sought by persuasion, threat and promise to undermine the workers' councils....
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