#SovietUnion

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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.
Wojciech Jaruzelski Wojciech Jaruzelski was the Polish general and communist party leader who declared martial law on December 13, 1981, interning Solidarity's leadership, and who subsequently presided over the 1989 roundtable negotiations that ended communist rule in Poland.

KGB The KGB (Committee for State Security) was the Soviet Union's main security agency from 1954 to 1991, serving as its foreign intelligence service, secret police, and internal security apparatus, and the institutional counterpart to the CIA throughout the Cold War.

Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR was a 1972 Defense Intelligence Agency report that assessed Soviet Union research into Parapsychology phenomena and its potential military applications.
Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact 'Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact' was a 1977 DIA report by Dale Graff assessing Soviet and Warsaw Pact research into psi phenomena including electromagnetic fields, quantum physics, and holography, which provided competitive justification for continued American government parapsychology investment.

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.

Psychotronic Research Psychotronic Research was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term for Psi research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology and electronics.
Psychotronic Weapons Psychotronic Weapons are a theoretical class of electromagnetic weapons, described in Soviet Union science journals, designed to influence or degrade human behavior and cognition.

Hungary Hungary is a Central European country and Soviet-bloc satellite state from 1945 to 1989 whose 1956 revolution against Soviet control was crushed by Red Army intervention.