The Central Committee of Hungary's Communist Party was treated to one of Communism's most affecting ceremonies last week: at the bidding of his comrades, bulletheaded, gold-toothed Matyas Rakosi, 64, Hungary's ironhanded Red boss for eleven years, hoisted himself onto a podium and proceeded to abase himself.
"In the last two years," Rakosi began lamely, "comrades have often noted that I have no longer been so frequently as before at enterprises among the masses. They were right. But they did not know that the reason was the worsening of my health. My state of...
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