Imre Nagy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Imre Nagy

Hungarian politician

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1896

Place of Birth: Kaposvár, Somogy County, Hungary

Date of Death: 16-Jun-1958

Profession: politician, economist, diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Imre Nagy

  • Imre Nagy (Hungarian: ['imr? 'n??]; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Prime Minister and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955 and in 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government, for which he was executed two years later. Nagy was a devout communist functionary since the Russian Revolution and served the Soviet NKVD secret police as an informer from 1933 to 1941, denouncing over 200 colleagues, who were then purged and arrested and 15 of whom were executed.
  • He served in various offices as the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) took control of Hungary in the late 1940s after World War II and the country entered the Soviet sphere of influence.
  • He played a key role in the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of German-speaking Hungarians from 1945 to 1946 as Interior Minister of Hungary.
  • Nagy became prime minister in 1953 and attempted to relax some of the harshest aspects of Mátyás Rákosi's Stalinist regime, but was subverted and eventually forced out of the government in 1955 by Rákosi's continuing influence as General Secretary of the MDP.
  • Nagy remained popular with writers, intellectuals, and the common people, who saw him as an icon of reform against the hard-line elements in the Soviet-backed regime.
  • The outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution on 23 October 1956 saw Nagy elevated to the position of Prime Minister on 24 October as a central demand of the revolutionaries and common people.
  • Nagy's reformist faction gained full control of the government, admitted non-communist politicians, dissolved the ÁVH secret police, promised democratic reforms, and unilaterally withdrew Hungary from the Warsaw Pact on 1 November.
  • The Soviet Union launched a massive military invasion of Hungary on 4 November, forcibly deposing Nagy who fled to the Embassy of Yugoslavia in Budapest.
  • Nagy was lured out of the Embassy under false promises on 22 November but was arrested and deported to Romania.
  • On 16 June 1958, Nagy was tried and executed for treason alongside his closest allies, and his body was buried in an unmarked grave. In June 1989, Nagy and other prominent figures of the 1956 Revolution were rehabilitated and reburied with full honours, an event that played a key role in the collapse of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party regime.

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