--- description: You can lead a Communist to a five-year plan, but you can't make him fulfill it. Last week Deputy Premier Matyas Rakosi admitted that Hungary's plan was a failure—in agriculture, coal... title: HUNGARY: Failure image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # HUNGARY: Failure by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 5, 1951 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 5, 1951 5:00 AM CUT You can lead a Communist to a five-year plan, but you can’t make him fulfill it. Last week Deputy Premier Matyas Rakosi admitted that Hungary’s plan was a failure—in agriculture, coal mining and heavy industry. Said Rakosi: “The hardest nut to crack is agriculture. Why? Because not even the Communists in the villages follow the policy of our party.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6608087/hungary-failure/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6608087/hungary-failure/"},"headline":"HUNGARY: Failure","datePublished":"1951-03-05T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T04:40:00.059Z","description":"You can lead a Communist to a five-year plan, but you can't make him fulfill it. Last week Deputy Premier Matyas Rakosi admitted that Hungary's plan was a failure—in agriculture, coal...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6608087/hungary-failure/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6608087/hungary-failure/","name":"HUNGARY: Failure"}}]}] ```