Imre Pozsgay

Imre Andrs Pozsgay was a Hungarian Communist politician who played a key role in Hungarys transition to democracy after 1988. He served as Minister of Culture , Minister of Education and Minister of State . He was also a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 1994.

Pozsgay was born in Kny onNovember 1933 as the son of tailor Imre Pozsgay, Sr. and housewife Rozlia Lnrt. After finishing elementary and secondary studies in Enying and Fertd, respectively, he joined the Hungarian Working Peoples Party in 1950 which had established a Communist oneparty system by then. In 1951, he became head of the Balatonbozsok party branch. Following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Pozsgay became a member of the reorganized state party, the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party . After that he graduated with an English degree from the Lenin Institute in Budapest, which belonged to the Etvs Lornd University. During that time he published an article for Petfi Npe onDecember 1957 about the 1956 uprising under the title Revolution or Counterrevolution. Therein he called the 1956 events as a pure counterrevolution, which tried to restore the capitalist conditions and the bourgeois rule. Imre Nagy was characterized by Pozsgay as an unprincipled person who became P

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