Hungary: Humanizing Communism

After the revolutions of 1848 swept the Continent, Hungarian Patriot Lajos Kossuth said that his countrymen were the "reddest republicans in Europe." Today, seven years after Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian revolt, Hun gary's 14 million people are fast be coming Europe's most republican Reds.

Western influences pop up every where throughout the country. Despite a scarcity of eggs and meat, store win dows display Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, Napoleon brandy and a selection of Scotch. Modern art hangs on gallery walls, and newspaper censorship has been relaxed; when President Kennedy's sisters, Pat...

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