SOVIET DIPLOMAT'S ANALYSIS OF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLT

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00280R001300040078-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: October 31, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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SOVIET DIPLOMAT'S ANALYSIS QF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLT
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1. THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF THE RE'40LT IN H'JNGAR7 UTAS THS FORCED INDUSiRIAY.-
IZATIDN POLICY WHICH STALIN I2D'OSID ON A P.s~OPLE WHO ARE MORE VOLATn.F THE.I~1 THS
PATZII+IT RUSSIANS, THE DEPRESSED STANDARD ON' LMNG RESULTING FROM THIS POLICY
ENGENDERED WIDESPREAD RESENTMENT. BOTH THE PREVIOIIS REGIME IN1 HUNGARY AND THS
PRESENT SOVIET GOVERNMEDTr MUST SHAR^c THE BLAME FOR NOT INITIAT2I3G IN TIME A POLZCZ
OF t-TR~srTZATION. DESTALINIZATION HAS BEEN CARRIED OITT WITH TOO MUFF? SPIRIT, AN
E~CSMP'i,E OF WHICH IS THE DISINTERMENT OF EXECtTTFD TTTOISTS AND THEIR R_~-BURIAL WITH
STATE HONORS.
2 a THE HUNGARIAN .F~=HS S FOi7GH`i' F7TT:i ARMS STOLEN FROM ARrLS DEPOTS AND
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 "FILTERED OVER THE AUSTRIAN FRONTI~Z SY FOREIGNI POWERS," T'r~ SOVIET DIPLOHAT DID
CONCEDE, HOl4EVER, THAT THE INSURGENT ARSENAL HAD BEEN AUGMENTID SY WEAPONS
SIIPPL'.IED BY TIC HUNGARIAN ARMY.
3. :H; ADMITTED THAT THE REVOLT WAS SPC:ITANEOIIS AND THAT IT HAD NOT BEEN
IANG IN PREPARATION AS CLAIMI!'D BY OFFICIAL SOVIET ORGANS. HE DISAGREED W2TH THE
PRAVDA CH:.RGE THAT THE REVOLT WAS THE WORK OF A REACTIONARY CLIQUE BY EaLPLAIPIL'~iG
THAT SUCH A CLIQUE, WHICH CEf?'TAII3LY EXISTED, PfiOV2DED ONLY THE NECESSARY SPARK TO
IGNITE THE DISCON'~"'fn 1T OF THE MF-SSES .
4, THE REVOLT WILL NOT SPREAD TO EITH~._.K CZECHOSLOVAKIA OR EAST GERMANY WHERE
DEGREE. NO D_4NGER OF UNREST IS FORESEEIJ I2J AL3ANIA AND BULGARIA WHERE THE PEASANT
MASSES ARE AT THE SAID ECONOMIC LEVEL AS IN THE USSR. HE ADMITTED THAT HE WAS
IGNORANT OF CONDITIONS IN RUP`.ANIA.
.5 - T1-~ CALL OF THE HUNGARIAN GOV~2.^A7ENT FOR THE ..TR OF SOVIET TROOPS CAME TOO
. ~,~: ;~'riCTTVE. DES~I'TE RECENT EVENTS, THE POLES AND HUNGARIANS WOULD CONTINU7s'
;i CF SOCIALISM, MAINTAIN TiIEIR TIES TO MOSCOW, AND PROVIDE BASES FOR THE
:~1~.SA'~nl PACT O?~A.^:IZATION. THE INSURGENT DE'i~SF.ND FOR T.:~s ABOLI'TION OF TI~is SECRET
'r'OLICE IS UNREALIZABLE. WHILE STEPS MIGhT BE UNDERTAI?::'~.N TO CORRECT SOME OF Tk'E
Ai3U.?ES, NO GOVERN:~iENT CAN AF'F'ORD TO DISPENSE WITH THE ,~ECit,_FT POLICE WINCH HAS BECOt~
AN I?vSEFE'RwSlE ORGAN OF ALL MOD~2N STATES. A CORRECTIC>T2 OF TI-~ AFsUS~..S OF THE SECRET
POLICE SYSTEPi, HE ADDED. WOJLD AL50 BE APPRECIATID IN TIC USSR.