Who was Imre Nagy? by Tom_Fields
At the end of World War II, the Soviets controlled Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria. These vassal states became part of an empire known as the Warsaw Pact. But in 1956, the Hungarian people rose up against their Communist overlords. The Soviet army put down the revolt with great brutality. Imre Nagy, the leader of the revolt, paid for it with his life. Today, he is venerated as a great national hero. His statue stands at the Martyrs' Square in Pest.
