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Combateu pelo exército da Áustria-Hungria na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Trabalhou depois na secção húngara do Comintern.
Depois da ocupação da Hungria pelos soviéticos em 1945 na sequência da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Nagy tornou-se ministro da agricultura e ministro da justiça durante o perigo de expurgo (1948-1953), mas pertenceu à liderança da ala reformista do Partido Comunista Húngaro após a morte de Estaline.
Em outubro de 1956, tornou-se primeiro-ministro durante a revolução e concordou com medidas radicais anti-soviéticas. Depois de as tropas soviéticas ocuparem a Hungria e esmagado pela força a Revolução Húngara de 1956, Nagy foi executado e enterrado secretamente em 1958.
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Revolution
Nagy became Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary again, this time by popular demand, during the anti-Soviet revolution in 1956. Soon he moved toward a multiparty political system.
On 1 November, he announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and appealed through the UN for the great powers, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, to recognize Hungary's status as a neutral state. Throughout this period, Nagy remained steadfastly committed to Marxism; but his conception of Marxism was as "a science that cannot remain static", and he railed against the "rigid dogmatism" of "the Stalinist monopoly".
When the revolution was crushed by the Soviet invasion of Hungary, Nagy, with a few others, was given sanctuary in the Yugoslav Embassy. In spite of a written safe conduct of free passage by János Kádár, on 22 November, Nagy was arrested by the Soviet forces as he was leaving the Yugoslav Embassy, and taken to Snagov, Romania.
Secret trial and execution
Subsequently, the Soviets returned him to Hungary, where he was secretly charged with organizing to overthrow the Hungarian people's democratic state and with treason. Nagy was secretly tried, found guilty, sentenced to death and executed by hanging in June 1958. His trial and execution were made public only after the sentence was carried out. According to Fedor Burlatsky, a Kremlin insider, Nikita Khrushchev had Nagy executed, "as a lesson to all other leaders in socialist countries."
He was buried along with his co-defendants in the prison yard where the executions were carried out and years later moved to a distant corner (section 301) of the Municipal Cemetery of Budapest, face-down, and with his hands and feet tied with a barbed wire. Next to his grave stands a memorial bell inscribed in Latin, Hungarian, German and English. The Latin reads: "Vivos voco / Mortuos plango / Fulgura frango," which is translated as: "I call the living, I mourn the dead, I master (lit. "break") the lightning.
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