biography
pronunciation:
[noj, imray]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1958)
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| biography:
| Hungarian statesman and prime minister (1953–5), born in Kaposvar, SW Hungary. He had a minor post in the Béla Kun revolutionary government in Hungary. He then went to Moscow (1929), and became a member of the Institute for Agrarian Sciences. Returning with the Red Army (1944), he was minister of agriculture, and as premier introduced milder political control. When Soviet forces began to put down the 1956 revolution, he appealed to the world for help, but was displaced by the Soviet puppet, János Kádár, and executed in Budapest. |
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