Janos Kadar
János Kádár, originally Janos Csermanck, (1912-1989) was the Communist prime minister of Hungary twice - 1956-1958 and 1961-1965. He was a major figure in Hungarian politics from the 1950s to the late 1980s.
In 1931 he joined the illegal Hungarian Communist Party, and was subsequently arrested several times for unlawful political activities. In 1946 he was elected deputy secretary-general of the Hungarian Communist Party, and then in 1949 became minister of the interior and head of the secret police.
In 1951 he was charged with treason by the Hungarian premier Matyas Rakosi, but was released in 1953. He rose to prominence quickly, and became the deputy premier in the newly created government headed by Imre Nagy.
Kadar was a central figure in the important events after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution which saw the downfall of Imre Nagy. Kadar became premier and exercised supreme power in the country until the late 1980s when Communism began to collapse and his own ill-health intervened.
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1956 Hungarian Revolution | History of Hungary | Hungarian Revolution, 1956 | Hungarian revolution | Hungary/History | Russian invasion of Hungary
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