Sándor Haraszti

Sándor Haraszti (18 November 1897 – 19 January 1982) was a Hungarian journalist and politician.

Biography Harszati was born in the family of a coachman. After graduating from school, he became a railway worker at the MÁV. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Haraszti fought in the Ranks of the Hungarian Red Army. In 1919, he joined the Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) in Pécs and went into exile in 1921 in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He then worked in Bač as an editor for the Hungarian-language newspaper Bács-megyei Naplóas. After returning to Hungary in 1929, he joined the illegal Hungarian Communist Party (KMP) as a member and was particularly involved in cultural work. In 1930, he became editor of the Kolozsvár newspaper Korunk and was repeatedly arrested for his illegal communist activities. In June 1944, as a member of the Peace Party (successor of the KMP). After the occupation of Hungary by the German Wehrmacht, he took part in armed struggles of the underground movement. After the end of the Second World War, Haraszti was between 1945 and 1948 the editor of the Budapest daily newspaper Szabadság and then in 1948 deputy head of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP), which was founded after upon…Citește mai mult