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Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minister from 1953-1955,destituted by the Stalinists under Matyas Rakosi,he was made Prime Minister at the beginning of the Revolution on October 24, 1956.After the Soviets crushed the Revolution,Nagy was imprisoned and executed in June 1958.
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Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minist...

Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minister from 1953-1955,destituted by the Stalinists under Matyas Rakosi,he was made Prime Minister at the beginning of the Revolution on October 24, 1956.After the Soviets crushed the Revolution,Nagy was imprisoned and executed in June 1958.
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Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minist...

Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minister from 1953-1955,destituted by the Stalinists under Matyas Rakosi,he was made Prime Minister at the beginning of the Revolution on October 24, 1956.After the Soviets crushed the Revolution,Nagy was imprisoned and executed in June 1958.
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Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minist...

Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minister from 1953-1955,destituted by the Stalinists under Matyas Rakosi,he was made Prime Minister at the beginning of the Revolution on October 24, 1956.After the Soviets crushed the Revolution,Nagy was imprisoned and executed in June 1958.
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Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minist...

Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minister from 1953-1955,destituted by the Stalinists under Matyas Rakosi,he was made Prime Minister at the beginning of the Revolution on October 24, 1956.After the Soviets crushed the Revolution,Nagy was imprisoned and executed in June 1958.
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Imre Nagy,Hungarian liberal Reform-Communist,at his home.Hungarian Prime Minist...

Meeting of the regional council of the National Front in the summer of 1956.Secretary General of the Hungarian Communist Party Matyas Rakosi (1892-1971), talks to Protestant Reform bishop Albert Bereczky.
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Meeting of the regional council of the National Front in the summer of 1956.Secr...

Meeting of the Council of the National Front (a Communist front-organization for religious leaders who followed the Communist line), June 2, 1956. In the center Janos Kadar (the father of "Gulyas-Communism"), just released from prison; on the right Zoltan Vas, chairman of the Land Planning Office, which organized the transfer from private agriculture to collective farming along Communist lines.
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Meeting of the Council of the National Front (a Communist front-organization for...

In the spring before the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of October 1956, Hungarian Communist leaders held a meeting of the Peoples'Front executive. Prime Minister Hegedues in center, talking to Reformed Bishop Bereczky,Rabbi Schwarz and Catholic bishop Hamvas.
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In the spring before the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of October 1956,...

Meeting of the regional council of the National Front, summer 1956. Matyas Rakosi (1892-1971),Secretary General of the Hungarian Communist Party,talking to (l.to r):Reformed bishop Albert Bereczky,Rabbi Benjamin Schwarz,Catholic bishop Endre Hamvas and Prime Minister Hegedues.Facing the camera is Father Horvath,a Peace pastor.
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Meeting of the regional council of the National Front, summer 1956. Matyas Rakos...

The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23, 1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. A group of insurgents walk past the Kilian barracks after a day of fighting. In the background, Colonel Pal Maleter's tank by which he wished to retreat into the baracks on October 25 (the tank's guntower is turned to the boulevard), but got stuck in the entrance. Maleter became Minister of Defense on November 3, 1956. After the failure of the Revolution he was sentenced to death together with Imre Nagy and executed in 1958.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23...

The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23, 1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. In front of the just-conquered AVH Headquarters, passers-by burn pictures of Party Secretary Matyas Rakosi.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23...

The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23, 1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. In front of the just-conquered AVH Headquarters, passers-by burn pictures of Party Secretary Matyas Rakosi.
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The Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23...