Obituary: Bela Szsz

The Independent - London | July 22, 1999| | Copyright

THE BEST-KNOWN political prisoner of Communist regimes in our century was probably a fictitious character, Rubashov, the self- deprecating hero of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. Rubashov of course confessed unimaginable crimes "for the good of the Party"; his very opposite was a Hungarian who after his youthful engagement in the Communist cause became the would-be star of the most sensational show-trial of post-war Eastern Europe, but who - to the dismay of his interrogators and tormentors - never confessed to crimes which he had never committed. His name was Bela Szsz.

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