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candidate s name came up, there were always immediate before being elected as the President of the Ministerial
objections. This was what worried us, and made it Council that the power was already in your hands. Com-
necessary to talk with more comrades, this way. Comrade rade Stalin reported this.
Rakosi s telegram also had this kind of effect. And then Com. Rakosi: The comrades said that we needed a big
we saw that we needed to help the comrades and we would army and military industry.
have to talk about this question openly. It is not a coinci- Com. Malenkov: We wanted you to develop the army.
dence that the question of bossiness came up. It is one We [will] correct this mistake. There are 600,000 people
thing to paint things very beautifully in the movies, but in the army. (Comrade Rakosi: Including the reserves. So
reality is another thing. you carried the Soviet Union s wishes to the extreme.
Why do we bring these questions up so harshly? We, Com. Beriia: The development of the army was
as Communists, are all responsible for the state of things in discussed with comrade Stalin. Comrade Stalin gave
Hungary. The Soviet Union is also responsible for what incorrect instructions.
kind of rule exists in Hungary. If they say that the Com- Com. Rakosi: We tried to execute the instructions.
munist Party of the Soviet Union advised certain incorrect My heart was aching about the fact that we had to maintain
things, we admit to that, and we correct the mistakes, too. such a big army.
We admit to the extreme military demands, but the Com. Malenkov: When you asked us to decrease our
comrades executed these demands even beyond what was demands to build barracks, we withdrew our requests
expected. Why should an army be maintained with such a immediately.
size that it bankrupts the state[?] The point is, we have to Com. Rakosi: Twenty-six percent of the farm land is
develop regulations together that are suitable to correct the in the hands of collectives. We achieved this in 5 years.
mistakes, and these regulations must be put into writing. It The peasantry knows that collectivization will happen
must be determined how power can be allocated to the sooner or later.
right places and distributed properly. We have to come to Com. Beriia.: The policy toward the middle peasantry
the conclusion that the Ministerial Council s President must be changed.
should be Hungarian. Comrade Rakosi will find his own Com. Malenkov: One or two things can be explained,
important position as the [First] Secretary of the Party. A but not everything. The issue of comrade Rakosi s
respectful person must be recommended as the Minister of telegram. Comrade Rakosi started to expand in the
the Interior; comrade Gerö should take over the leadership telegram on something other than what they had talked
of the Ministry of the Interior. The Politburo must take its about and agreed on. The issue is that there should not be
own place; the Secretariat and the Ministerial Council three Jews in the leadership.42 However, comrade Rakosi
should also take their own places. It is an impossible state in the telegram made it sound like we had given such an
of affairs that persons in the Ministerial Council keep advice, and answered that he did not really understand it,
silent regarding the question of [agricultural] levy in kind but he accepted it.
[only] because it had been previously decided on by the Com. Beriia: If the great Stalin made mistakes,
Secretariat. comrade Rakosi can admit that he made mistakes too. It
Recommendations must be made as to who should be must not be prescribed who should be beaten by the AVH.
placed where. There should be no favor for anyone with Everyone will be afraid. Comrade Hidasi is afraid, too;
regards to who should be placed in what field. It is our that s what his speech reflects. Provocation can reach
sacred responsibility to place everyone in the proper everything [sic!], if the methods are like these. People
position. Whoever is placed in a responsible position must must not be beaten.
be respected and full rights must be insured for him. There The Ministerial Council must make the decisions
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