Mátyás Rákosi
Former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party (1892-1971)
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Lived 1892–1971, aged 79
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He coined the term "salami tactics" to describe how he dismantled Hungary's democracy slice by slice after 1945, turning a crushing electoral defeat into total power within three years. As Stalin's most faithful disciple in Eastern Europe, Rákosi presided over mass imprisonment, show trials, and a personality cult that made him absolute ruler until the syste
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Mátyás Rákosi was a commissar in Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic in 1919, then spent over fifteen years in prison after returning to organize the underground Communist Party in 1924. He became such a cause célèbre that an International Brigades battalion bore his name; Moscow finally traded him out in 1940 for battle flags from 1848. When the Red Army pushed into Hungary in early 1945, Rákosi returned and led the re-founded Communist Party to a crushing defeat in free elections, but Moscow secured him the deputy prime minister post and control of the Interior Ministry. From there he used…
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