ABSTRACT
The national income has a high growth rate: it tripled between 1950 and 1968 and since the economic reforms has increased by about 7-8 percent yearly. "The Party of the Communists of Hungary," one further reads, "will use all its activity, its influence among the masses, and its organizational strength exclusively against the common enemy as long as the common national objectives have not been reached." The strategy and tactics of the Hungarian Communist party (HCP) compared to those of other political parties have this peculiarity: "conflict" has an infinitely more important place than "integration." As the HCP struggled, first against the conservative parties and afterward against its reluctant democratic partners, the political police became an extremely powerful political instrument in its hands. The political police is invariably subordinate to the Soviet police services, especially through the Russian "advisors" assigned to the Hungarian leaders.
