 Complete the following phrase:  An ardent Stalinist, his government was very loyal to the Soviet Union, and Rákosi even set up a personality cult of his own modeled on that of Stalin. He presided over the mass imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian people and the deaths of thousands. He orchestrated show trials modeled on those of the USSR, among the most prominent victims of which was his former lieutet László Rajk. His policies of collectivization and mass repression devastated the countrys economy and political life, causing massive discontent. After the 