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Mtys Rkosi was a Hungarian communist politician. He was born Mtys Rosenfeld in Ada, presentday Serbia. He was the leader of the Hungarian Communist Party from 1945 to 1956 first as General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party and later holding the same post with the Hungarian Working Peoples Party . As such, from 1949 to 1956, he was the de facto ruler of Communist Hungary. His government was aligned with the USSR. American journalist John Gunther described Rkosi as the most malevolent character I ever met in political life.

Rkosi was born in Ada, then a village in BcsBodrog County in AustriaHungary, now a town in Vojvodina, Serbia. Born to Jewish parents, the fourth son of a grocer, his mother would give birth to seven more children. Of his younger siblings the most notable was Ferenc Rkosi an administrator, who also became active in Communist politics and was, for a time, General Manager of the Mtys Rkosi Steel and Metal Works during his brothers rule. Rkosis paternal grandfather participated in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, as a result he had to flee the village following the defeat. Rkosis father, Jzsef Rosenfeld was called Kossuths Jew by the villagers, because he had been a member and avid supporter of the oppositionist Party of Independence and 48. He changed his surname Rosenfeld to Rkosi in 1903. He later repudiated religion and in common with most other Marxists described himself as an Atheist and opponent of organised religion.

Source: Wikipedia