János József Kádár, born János József Czermanik, was a Hungarian Communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, a position he held for 32 years. Declining health led to his retirement in 1988, and he died in 1989 after being hospitalized for pneumonia.
Kádár in 1977
Kádár during his arrest in 1933
Kádár (left) and László Rajk, members of the Central Executive of the Hungarian Communist Party at the first national meeting of the MKP, May 1945
Kádár (fourth in the first row) at the 8th Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (East Berlin, 1971)
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party of the Hungarian People's Republic between 1956 and 1989. It was organised from elements of the Hungarian Working People's Party during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, with János Kádár as general secretary. The party also controlled its armed forces, the Hungarian People's Army.
Image: János Kádár (fototeca.iiccr.ro)
Image: Grósz Károly 1986
Image: Nyers Rezső 1970