May 21, 2020

The tragic life story of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister, leader of the Hungarian revolution 1956, military uprising against suffocating Stalinist tyranny of the Soviet Union. He was the first communist leader to become the symbol of a national revolution, who withdrew from the Warsaw Treaty and stood up for democracy based on a pluralist party system, proclaiming his country’s neutral status base on Austrian model. Betrayed by his closed associates, lured into a trap, he was tried in a farce trial, accused of high treason, plead not guilty, condemned to death and hanged.