Talk:Mátyás Rákosi
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[edit] Origin
There's a slow revert war whether Rákosi was a Jew or not. A book Uprising (about 1956 Hungarian Revolution) from David Irving states (page 37): Born “Matthias Roth” on March 9th, 1892, the son of a Jewish grocer.... Whatever one thing about DI it is not likely invention.
Source for name Rosenfeld is not provided and the whole war feels quite useless. The time spent on it should be dedicated to expand the facts-poor article. Pavel Vozenilek 05:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
It is not specefied in any mainstream outlet e.g MS Encarata, Brittanica, etc that he was Jewish. Although it is well known that Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Bela Kun were Jews. Zvesda
Mátyás Rákosi was born on March 9th 1892 with the name József Rosenfeld, into a poor jewish family with 12 children. It is well-known and no "revert war" is needed to decide whether it is true or not. (193.6.243.100 09:08, 3 April 2006 (UTC))
There is not any evidence for such information. Zvesda
There are a lot of evidence, because it is well-known. For example, a rabbi of a hungarian jewish community says here: http://www.zsido.hu/aktiv/rabbiv.php, that Rákosi left his jewish religion and did a lot of harm even for the jews. The link text is hungarian, but I can find you a lot of english evidence on the net, if you want. In hungary, there are some falsification in this case, for example, some say that Rákosi's original name was Manó Roth. It is not correct, "Manó Róth" is a classical nickname for all jews in hungarian culture, but his original name was Rosenfeld. And there is a fear in the hungarian jewish people that Rákosi's jewish origin and his crimes against humanity will be used sometime for helping anti-semitism. Thanks LamaXX
[edit] Appeasing Tito?
"In August 1952 he also became prime minister of Hungary, but on 13 June 1953, to appease Tito, he was forced to give up the office to Imre Nagy, while retaining the office of General Secretary."
I know Tito was heavily interested in Hungarian politics at the time, but who was doing the appeasing here? Khrushchev? It is unclear. Twalls 21:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
