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Mátyás Rákosi
Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian communist politician who was the de facto leader of Hungary from 1948 to 1956. He served first as General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party from 1945 to 1948 and then as General Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party from 1948 to 1956.
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politics · Hungarian Communist leader (1892-1971) · politician · also Mátyás Rákosi, Matyas Rakosi, Mátyás Rosenfeld, Rákosi
Born 9 March 1892 · Died 5 February 1971 · Q207631
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2006· 1 entry
Irish Examiner: Person: Mátyás Rákosi
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1971· 2 entries
Died 1971-02-05.
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And his ashes were returned to Hungary in secret
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1970· 1 entry
Was finally granted permission to return to Hungary if he promised not to engage in political activities
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1957· 1 entry
The National Assembly of Hungary stripped him off the membership in the Presidential Council and the parliamentary mandate
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1956· 1 entry
With the official story being that he was "seeking medical attention"
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1953· 2 entries
Rákosi was partially demoted at Moscow's behest and the reformist Communist Imre Nagy became the new prime minister; however, Rákosi was able to use his continuing influence as First Secretary to thwart all of Nagy's att
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“Opis: gdy Rákosi w dniu 13 czerwca 1953 spotkał Berię na korytarzu po tym, jak został wezwany do Moskwy.”
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1952· 1 entry
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Hungary (1952–1953).
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1949· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1949–1957).
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The country was proclaimed a people's republic with Rákosi as its absolute ruler
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1948· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the HWP Central Directorate Resolution (1948–1956).
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1948–1949).
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1947· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1947–1948).
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1946· 1 entry
Estimated the cost of reparations as "between 19 and 22 percent of the annual national income
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1945· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1945–1947).
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1944· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Provisional National Assembly (1944–1945).
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1942· 1 entry
Married divorced lawyer Feodora (Fenia) Kornilova, a woman of Yakut origin
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1940· 1 entry
In exchange for prized battle flags captured by Tsarist Russian forces after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
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1924· 2 entries
Was imprisoned, but he was released to the Soviet Union in 1940, in exchange for the Hungarian revolutionary banners captured by Russian troops at Világos in 1849
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After attempting to return to Hungary and organize the Communist Party underground, and ultimately spent over fifteen years in prison
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1919· 1 entry
Was a leading commissar in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic
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1915· 1 entry
And held as a prisoner-of-war in Far Eastern POW camps by the Russians until the end of the war
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1910· 2 entries
And was also a secretary and active member of the anarcho-syndicalist student movement, the Galilei Circle
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Where one of his teachers was Mihály Babits
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-03-09.
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