Soviet control in Hungary
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- Soviet control in Hungary
- After Stalin died, Soviet leader Khrushchev indicated relaxation of Soviet control
- When Hungary started to move away from Soviet influence, Soviet control was tightened for fear that Hungary left the Warsaw Pact, other countries would follow
- Impact of Soviet rule
- Hungary suffered a lot under Stalin's control
- Food and industrial products were shipped off to Russia
- Any opposition in Hungary was ruthlessly wiped out
- Matyas Rakosi was a brutal ruler, called himself 'Stalin's best pupil' but was known as the 'Bald Butcher'
- Communist rule became very unpopular
- Destalinisation
- In Khrushchev's 1965 'secret speech', he hinted Soviet control would relax
- Oct 1956 - poor harvests and bread shortages meant Hungarians started demonstrating against communist control (Stalin statues pulled down and local communists attacked).
- Khrushchev appointed a more liberal leader as prime minister (Imre Nagy) in the hope the situation would calm down
- Nagy as prime minister (his reforms)
- Leave the Warsaw Pact and become a neutral country
- Hold free elections leading to no more communist government
- UN protection from the Soviet Union
- After Stalin died, Soviet leader Khrushchev indicated relaxation of Soviet control
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