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Hungary POSTWAR HUNGARY
In the aftermath of World War II, a victorious Soviet
Union
succeeded in forcing its political, social, and economic
system
on Eastern Europe, including Hungary. But the Hungarians
never
reconciled themselves to Soviet hegemony over their
country and
rebelled against the Soviet Union and its Hungarian
vassals in
1956. That revolution was crushed by Soviet tanks, but it
brought
to power Janos Kadar, who then attempted to institute a
milder
form of communist rule.
Data as of September 1989
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