BRIEF AUS BUDAPEST: Der Weg zur Kolchose. Die Situation der ungarischen Landwirtschaft
LETTER FROM BUDAPEST: The Way to the Kolkhoz. On the Situation of Hungarian Agriculture.

Summary/Abstract: The once-ruling class of Hungarians is dead, imprisoned, or fled abroad. The same has happened to a part of the bourgeoisie; and those "bourgeois" who have escaped from this fate, are serving the „people‘s-democratic“ regime in a proletarianized and, depending on the temperament, teeth-crushing or resigned way. The political opposition is extinguished. There is no book, no newspaper or radio station, which would not necessarily be lined with liners. The Protestant clergy and the Jewish community leaders collaborate with the Communist rulers. The Roman Catholic Church is pushed into a hopeless defensive. The Social Democratic workforce is leadless and silenced. There is only one serious hurdle for the Kremlin's governors in Hungary, but an obstacle to a truly worrying, threatening scale: the resistance of the Hungarian peasantry. It is not for the first time that Matyas Rákosi, the leader of Hungarian Bolshevism, has to deal with the peasantry. Already in 1919 he has played a major role in the construction of a Hungarian Soviet Republic. It got only 134 days old, and failed at the resistance of the villages.

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