#Hungary
5 entries tagged Hungary.
People (3)
- Imre Nagy Imre Nagy was the Hungarian Prime Minister who led the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact on November 1, took refuge in the Yugoslav embassy when Soviet forces crushed the uprising, was lured out under a false safe-conduct promise, and was secretly executed on June 16, 1958.
- Janos Kadar Janos Kadar was the Hungarian communist leader installed by the Soviet Union after crushing the 1956 Hungarian Revolution who governed Hungary for 32 years under a relatively liberal 'goulash communism' economic model, having betrayed the revolution he had initially supported, and who died on July 6, 1989 - one day after the Hungarian parliament voted to rehabilitate Imre Nagy.
- Josef Cardinal Mindszenty Hungarian Cardinal whose apparently coerced 1949 show-trial confession alarmed CIA analysts and directly triggered the creation of Project BLUEBIRD, the Agency's first formal behavioral control program.
Events (1)
- Hungarian Revolution The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide uprising against Soviet-backed communist rule that began October 23, 1956, was crushed by Soviet military intervention on November 4, and whose failure - despite Radio Free Europe's 'rollback' rhetoric - destroyed Frank Wisner and ended the Eisenhower administration's 'liberation' policy.
Places (1)
- Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary on the Danube, most significant in Cold War history as the epicenter of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its Soviet suppression.