The maid of Hungary’s communist dictator spoke

She talked about what was working with the Janos Kadar, Secretary General of MSZMP (Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party) like. You can draw a lot of lessons of it, hir24.hu said.

Mrs. Ilona Granicz, who was once the maid of Janos Kadar, Secretary General of MSZMP in his Aliga summer house, said a few sentences to newspaper Bors. The article only reveals one important thing: the Kadar nostalgia still consumes Hungary.

Ilona said that she worked with her colleague, Iren in the holiday house for years. Kadar let them in the room every morning saying “come cuties”. They constantly filled up the fridge with salami, fruit and everything which were not very accessible. Kadar does not eat them; when they wanted to make something new for him, he insisted on potatoes with paprika and pickled cucumber.

Satin pants

The another important information revealed from the stories of Ilona is that Janos Kadar went to the beach and sailed in satin pants, he sent off his guards as well this time. He was very respectful with the maids, but his wife, Maria Tamaska, checked them more rigorously.

However, Bors wrote that Kadar was a dictator. Actually, they used the word tyrant, according to hir24.hu. In the case of death of Nagy Imre and hundreds of other people’s lives, the blame falls on him. Nevertheless, the Kadar nostalgia is becoming stronger in Hungary, which is based on two pillars:

Kadar was an austere man; he did not steal like today’s politicians. He was like an ordinary man.
Maybe there was not a heck of lot freedom, but everyone had a job, livelihood.