János Kádár
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János József Kádár 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
Kádár in 1977
Kádár circa 1962
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
Károly Grósz
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Károly Grósz was a Hungarian communist politician, who served as the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party from 1988 to 1989.
János Kádár
…the expectations of the Western world. In an interview with a Western journalist, he called himself a "toiler for compromise". Kádár was succeeded by Károly Grósz as General Secretary on 22 May 1988. (Grósz would only serve a year in this post due to the fall of Communism in Europe in 1989.) During his time as…
Grósz in 1989
Grósz meets with U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C., 27 July 1988