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
Imre Nagy
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Imre Nagy was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revo
János Kádár
…Interior Minister from 1948 to 1950. In 1951, he was imprisoned by the government of Mátyás Rákosi but was released in 1954 by reformist Prime Minister Imre Nagy. On 25 October 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution, Kádár replaced Ernő Gerő as General Secretary of the Party, taking part in Nagy's revolutionary…
Official portrait, 1953
Imre Nagy portrait
Nagy with his wife Mária and daughter Erzsébet in 1929.
Nagy after his arrival from Moscow in June 1953.