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HUNGARY: Failure

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TIME

You can lead a Communist to a five-year plan, but you can’t make him fulfill it. 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. Why? Because not even the Communists in the villages follow the policy of our party.”

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