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Biography From the age of 13, he trained as a silversmith. He was a member of the Hungarian Communist Party from its founding on November 24, 1918. As a young man, he fought in the Hungarian Red Army. After the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he fled to Austria, and from there, he moved to Czechoslovakia. He then returned to work on the underground organization of the Hungarian Komsomol. In 1922, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison on May 12, 1923. In March 1924, he left for the Soviet Union under a prisoner exchange agreement with the USSR. He received a technical education and worked as a military engineer, becoming an officer in the Soviet Red Army. During World War II, he initially worked in the rear in Chelyabinsk, then headed a partisan school in Kiev and, as part of the Red Army, fought in the liberation of Hungary. With the establishment of the Hungarian People's Republic, he entered government service. From 1947 to 1948, he served as Hungary's ambassador to Poland. He then worked in the Ministry of Defense. After the suppression of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, he served as Minister of Defense…