State Protection Authority
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The State Protection Authority was the secret police of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1945 to 1956. The ÁVH was conceived as an external appendage of the Soviet Union's KGB in Hungary responsi
House of Terror, the agency's headquarters
Protesters kicking the body of a slain ÁVH soldier
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
State Protection Authority
…persecuting political criminals. The ÁVH gained a reputation for brutality during a series of purges but was gradually reined in under the government of Imre Nagy, a moderate reformer, after he was appointed Prime Minister of Hungary in 1953. The ÁVH was dissolved by Nagy's revolutionary government during the…
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.