China Insisted Russia Crush Hungarian Rising

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30230, 7 September 1963, Page 11

China Insisted Russia Crush Hungarian Rising

(N Z. Press Association— Copyright)

LONDON, September 6. China today took credit for crushing the Hungarian revolt of 1956, the Associated Press said in a report from Tokyo.

“We insisted on the taking of all necessary measures to smash the couter-revolutionary rebellion in Hungary and firmly opposed the abandonment of Socialist Hungary,” the Peking “People’s Daily” said.

In a new attack on the Soviet leadership meaning Mr Khrushchev Peking accused the Russians of having taken a course of ' “allying with the United States against China” since the Polish and Hungarian insurrections seven years ago.

“At the critical moment when the Hungarian counterrevolutionaries had occupied Budapest, for a time.” the Soviet leaders “intended to adopt a policy of capitulation and abandon Socialist Hungary to counter-revolu-tion,” Peking said. The Chinese onslaught on Mr Khrushchev came in the People's Daily" and the Party magazine, “Red Flag,” and was distributed by the New China News Agency in English translation, A.P. said. A Soviet army of 200,000 troops and 2000 tanks and armoured cars made a surprise attack on Budapest on November 4, 1956, crushing the revolution.

Thousands pf freedom fighters were killed and from 170.000 to 196,000 persons fled the country. Janos Kadar was installed as Prime Minister by the Soviet Union,

The Chinese said the Russians erred in both their stands on the Poznan riots of June, 1956, and the Hungarian uprising a few months later.

Of the Polish affair, Peking said: “By moving up troops in an attempt to subdue the Polish comrades by armed force it (Soviet leadership) committed the error of greatpower chauvinism.” Soviet Rancour At the time of the Hungarian affair, the Soviet Union “accepted our suggestion . . . but subsequent events showed that the leaders of the C.P.S.U. nursed rancour against us.” Peking said Marsha] Bulganin was Prime Minister, while Mr Khrushchev was party secretary in 1956, A.P. said.

“These efforts” in handling the 1956 uprisings “inflated the arrogance of all the enemies of communism, created serious difficulties for many fraternal parties and caused the international Communist movement great damage.” Peking said.

“The last seven years have amply proved that the road taken by the leadership of the C.P.S.U. is the course of allying with imperialism against socialism, allying with the -United States against China, allying with the reactionaries of all countries against the people of the world, and allying with the renegade Tito clique against fraternal Marxist-Leninist parties,” Peking said. The Chinese said the Soviet leadens have "pushed Chin-ese-Soviet relations to the brink of a split and have carried the differences in the international Communist movement to a new stage of unprecedented gravity,” A.P. said. Attack On Stalin Taking up Mr Khrushchev’s famous attack on Stalin at the twentieth Soviet Communist Party congress, the Chinese said it was “wrong both in principle and in method.”

"It was necessary to criticise Stalin’s mistakes,” the Chinese said, “but in his secret report to the twentieth congress Comrade Khrushchev completely negated Stalin and in doing so defamed the' dictatorship of the proletariat. . . . “He treated Stalin as an enemy and shifted the blame

for all mistakes on to Stalin alone.” the Chinese said. “Khrushchev viciously and demagogically told a host of lies in his secret report and threw around charges that Stalin had a persecution mania and indulged in brutal arbitrariness.

“He completely obliterated, the meritorious deeds of Stalin, who led the Soviet people in waging resolute struggle against all internal and external foes,” the Chinese said. “Foul Deeds”

Peking charged, in its most bitter declaration so far, that since 1956 the Soviet leadership had “committed innumerable foul deeds and not all the water in the Volga can wash away the gravest shame you have brought upon the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and upon the Soviet Union." It described as slander Soviet allegations that it is seeking to wrest the leadership of the Communist Bloc from Moscow. "Is this not tantamount to shamelessly claiming that some sort of ‘leadership’ exists in the international Communist movement and that you have this ‘leadership’? It is a very, very bad habit of yours thus to put on the airs of a partriarchal party,” Peking said.