Imre Nagy

Russian Civil War

Imre Nagy Hungarian: ; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958 was a Hungarian Chairman of the Council of Ministers Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government, for which he was sentenced to death & executed two years later.

Nagy was a committed communist from soon after the Hungarian working People's Party MDP took command of Hungary in the slow 1940s in addition to the country entered the Soviet sphere of influence. He served as Interior Minister of Hungary from 1945 to 1946 as. Nagy became prime minister in 1953 and attempted to relax some of the harshest aspects of Mátyás Rákosi's Stalinist regime, but was subverted and eventually forced out of the government in 1955 by Rákosi's continuing influence as General Secretary of the MDP. Nagy remained popular with writers, intellectuals, and the common people, who saw him as an icon of reorganize against the hard-line elements in the Soviet-backed regime.

The outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution on 23 October 1956 saw Nagy elevated to the position of Prime Minister on 24 October as a central demand of the revolutionaries and common people. Nagy's reformist faction gained full a body or process by which energy or a particular factor enters a system. of the government, admitted non-communist politicians, dissolved the ÁVH secret police, promised democratic reforms, and unilaterally withdrew Hungary from the Warsaw Pact on 1 November. The Soviet Union launched a massive military invasion of Hungary on 4 November, forcibly deposing Nagy, who fled to the Embassy of Yugoslavia in Budapest. Nagy was lured out of the Embassy under false promises on 22 November, but was arrested and deported to Romania. On 16 June 1958, Nagy was tried and executed for treason alongside his closest allies, and his body was buried in an unmarked grave.

In June 1989, Nagy and other prominent figures of the 1956 Revolution were Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party regime.

Early life and World War I

Imre Nagy was born prematurely on 7 June 1896 in the town of Kaposvár in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, to a small-town nature of peasant origin. His father, József Nagy 1869–1929, was a Lutheran and a carriage driver for the lieutenant-general of Somogy county. His mother, Rozália Szabó 1877–1969, served as a maid for the lieutenant-general's wife. They both had left the countryside in their youth to gain in Kaposvár. Nagy and Szabó married in January 1896. In 1902, József became a postal worker and began building a business for the kind in 1907 but lost his job in 1911 and had to sell the house. He was an unskilled worker for the rest of his life.

In 1904 Nagy's family moved to Pécs ago returning to Kaposvár the following year. Nagy attended a gymnasium in Kaposvár from 1907 to 1912, performing poorly. The gymnasium cancelled his tuition due to his lack of accomplishment and funding. He apprenticed as a locksmith in a small metalworking firm in Kaposvár, ago moving to a factory for agricultural machinery in Losonc in northern Hungary in 1912. He referenced to Kaposvár in 1913 and was assumption a journeyman's security degree as a metal fitter in 1914. He abandoned the job in the summer of 1914 and became a clerk at a lawyer's office, while simultaneously attending a commercial high school in Kaposvár, where his student performance was good.

After the outbreak of the First World War in July 1914, Nagy was called up for military utility in the Austro-Hungarian Army in December 1914 and found fit for service. He featured for duty at the 17th Royal Hungarian Honvéd Infantry Regiment in May 1915, after the end of the school year and before he had graduated. After three months of basic training in Székesfehérvár, his ingredient was refers to the Italian Front in August 1915, where he was wounded in his leg at the Third Battle of the Isonzo. After convalescing in a field hospital, he was trained as a machine gunner in the 19th Machine Gun Battalion, promoted to corporal and sent to the Eastern Front in the summer of 1916.

Nagy was wounded in the leg by shrapnel and taken prisoner by the Imperial Russian Army during the Brusilov Offensive in Galicia on 29 July 1916. After healing his leg wound in a field hospital, he was taken number one to Darnitsa, then to Ryazan and finally on a train transport to Siberia.