People of the Revolution and the USSR
Security, intelligence and policing
Background: Hungary
The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재
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- Ferenc Münnich Münnich Ferenc Hungarian communist who backed Soviet intervention with Kádár in 1956 and became prime minister after the revolution was crushed
- Gábor Péter Péter Gábor Founder of Hungary's secret police, and its prisoner
- László Rajk Rajk László Interior minister who built the ÁVH secret police, then fell as the first major victim of Stalinist show trials in Eastern Europe
- Sándor Kopácsi Kopácsi Sándor A police chief who stood between state orders and guns aimed at the people