Word: gero
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Budapest students and workers marched to the parliament building on Kossuth Square on Oct. 23, they had no thought of overthrowing the Communist regime. They wanted mainly to petition the leadership for various reforms, including the return to power of a moderate Communist leader, Imre Nagy. Party Secretary Erno Gero scornfully rejected their pleas and called them "enemies of the people." The demonstrators then paraded to the main broadcasting station to put their case on the air. Security police opened fire, but Hungarian army reinforcements balked...
...Soviets agreed to turn over the premiership to Nagy, a walrus- mustachioed intellectual; the hated Gero was replaced by Janos Kadar. Nagy tried to slow the revolution, but the street crowds kept applying pressure. He agreed to take noncommunists into his government. Going further, he formally asked the Soviets to leave, announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and asked the U.N. to guarantee his country's neutrality. On Oct. 29, it was announced that the Soviets had begun withdrawing from Budapest...