Mátyás Rákosi

Mátyás Rosenfeld Rákosi , was born the March 14th 1892 with Ada in Austria-Hungary (today in Voïvodine in Serbia) and died the February 5th 1971 with Nijni-Novgorod, then in Soviet Union). Hungarian at the time of the Communisme was a politician and had the reputation of a Stalinist of most rigid. At the time of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, it flees in Soviet Union.

Of the soldier to the chief of the Comintern

During the First World War, Rákosi was useful in the Austro-Hungarian army and was made prisoner by the Russians. The revolutionary events in Russia made of him a Marxist convinced and, returned to Hungary, it became in 1919 member of the Communist government of the République of the Councils under Béla Kun. When this one crumbled at the end of four months, it took refuge in Soviet Union.

On its return in Hungary in 1924, it was stopped. Released in 1940, it turned over to Russia, where he became chief of the Komintern. The end of the Second world war enabled him to return at his place with the Red Army .

“The best Hungarian pupil of Stalin”

When, after the Second world war, the Iron curtain fell on Hungary and that brutal methods had carried the Communists to the capacity, Rákosi became General secretary Communist party of Hungary (KPU). It directed in a very authoritative way the Party, reinforced its capacity and organized of 1945 to 1949 the progressive “sovietization” of the country. All the “not-Stalinist” organizations were prohibited or put at the step.

Rákosi described itself as “better Hungarian pupil of Stalin”. For its policy of systematic sovietization, he invented the “Tactique salami”, expression by which he explained how one eliminates item by item an democratic opposition. In 1949 Rákosi started to institute the terror of State: the police force of safety ÁVH acts vigorously against all the adversaries of mode, several thousands of people lost the life.

In 1952, Mátyás Rákosi became also Prime Minister and it made weigh its heavy authority on Hungary. The country knew economic low registers problems with the massive deterioration of the means of production and a crisis of agriculture. For this reason, after the death of Stalin, which protected it, the Soviet government forced it to yield in June 1953 the post of Prime Minister to Imre Nagy. It remained however with the head of the Communist party. Little time after, at the beginning of 1955, its entourage took again the reins of the capacity and Nagy was returned from its station on April 14th, 1955; András Hegedűs, rakosyste, succeeded to him. Rákosi remained still general secretary of the Hungarian Communist party, although the rebellion of the Hungarian people was profiled already at the horizon, and it made stop and even carry out thousands of opponents of the mode.

The fall

In February 1956, Khrouchtchev pronounced its secret Discours which was to become famous, with the XXe congress of the Communist party of Soviet Union and it denounced there the Stalinist worship of the personality in the other countries of the Soviet block, five months later, in October 1956, Rákosi was constrained to leave its station. It was briefly replaced by Ernő Gerő as a general secretary of the Hungarian Communist party and preferred once again to flee in Soviet Union, whereas the Hungarian revolution beat full sound, where it lived 15 more years. It however was excluded from the Communist party in 1962.

Random links: