This account is drawn from Béla Lipták’s Testament of Revolution — read the full chapter: 13. fejezet: Kihallgatás (Magyar) / Chapter 13: Interrogation (English).
Footnotes
1) In 1994, he died as the plant manager of a corn factory in Peru, leaving behind three sons named: Lehel, Ákos and Levente.
2) János Kádár spent 3 years in jail, because of pro-Titoism (1951-4). In 1956 he first joined the cabinet of Imre Nagy, but soon formed a counter government and in 1958 tried and executed Imre Nagy with Soviet support. He also supported Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
3) For decades, the age of this baby, Andrea, indicated to me the length of Communism's death struggle, after it was mortally wounded on the streets of Budapest in 1956. Unfortunately, Andrea did not live to see this end, she committed suicide before the red monster expired. After the revolution professor Bónis became a professor at MIT and today he is a major supporter and sponsor of the Boston Opera.
4) This was the last time I have seen Marika, I do not know, if she survived that awful leg wound, but her last sentence, I will treasure forever. In the early 1990's, I did hear from Gyuszi Perr. He was flying over my city of Stamford, Connecticut and was calling from his company's airplane, that of the Cummings Engine Company of Columbus in Ohio. In 2005 I learned that he too died.
