György Bence (

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

, 8 December 1941 – 28 October 2006, Budapest) was a university professor, philosopher, dissident and political consultant. In 1979 he was among the first Hungarians who criticized together with

Andrei Sakharov Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for n ...

and others the

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crackdown on the Czech

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signatories. Later he was among the founding members of the

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. He was founding editor-in-chief of the Budapesti Könyvszemle (1989–1995).

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1941 births 2006 deaths Writers from Budapest Hungarian Jews Jewish philosophers 20th-century Hungarian philosophers {{Hungary-philosopher-stub

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