Miklós Gimes (23 December 1917 in

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– 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian journalist and politician, notable for his role in the

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. He was executed along with

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and

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in 1958 for treason. His parents were

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, psychiatrists, converts to the Unitarian faith, his mother, Lilly Hajdu was a physician, president of the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Association from 1947 until its forced dissolution in 1949.Anna Borgos, “Women in the History of Hungarian Psychoanalysis” (“Lilly Hajdu and the Encounters of Psychoanalysis and Politics”, p.165-167), in ''European Yearbook of the History of Psychology'', 2017, 3, Brepols, p.155—180. Gimes became involved in the Hungarian

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movement in 1942, and worked as a journalist in various communist newspapers. In 1955, he was expelled from the Hungarian Working People's Party for calling for the rehabilitation of

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. As a political friend of

, his membership was reinstated in 1956. During the revolution, Gimes was heavily involved in both politics and revolutionary journalism. He founded and edited a newspaper along with other revolutionaries, ''Magyar Szabadság''. He stood by the revolution even after the

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invasion, founding the Hungarian Democratic Independence Movement. On 5 December, Gimes was arrested and brought to trial. After a year and a half, he was sentenced to death by the

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. The execution was carried out on 16 June 1958, when he was aged forty.

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