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Béla Vágó (born ''Béla Weiss''; 9 August 1881 in Kecskemét – 10 March 1939) was a Hungarian

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politician, who served as ''de facto''

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Jenő Landler Jenő Landler (November 23, 1875 – February 25, 1928) was a Hungarian politician and socialist leader. Born in to a Jewish family, he studied to be a lawyer and was drawn to the Social Democratic Party through his involvement in the ironwo ...

during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. After the fall of the communist regime, he emigrated to the Soviet Union.

Death

He was arrested on 28 February 1939 on fabricated charges (espionage, counter-revolutionary activity), then sentenced to death on 10 March; the sentence being executed that day. He was buried in the Donskoye Cemetery, Common Grave No. 1. He was rehabilitated on 25 February 1956.

References

Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
1881 births 1939 deaths People from Kecskemét Jewish Hungarian politicians Jewish socialists Social Democratic Party of Hungary politicians Interior ministers of Hungary Hungarian emigrants to the Soviet Union People granted political asylum in the Soviet Union Jews executed by the Soviet Union Great Purge victims from Hungary Executed communists {{Hungary-politician-stub Soviet rehabilitations