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[Rick Halperin]

June 16


HUNGARY:

Hungary Drops Case Over Nagy's Execution


Hungarian authorities today said they have dropped a case against late
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Hungary's Communist Party boss Janos
Kadar for their roles in the execution of former Prime Minister Imre Nagy.

In a decree carried by the state news agency MTI, Hungarian police said
Khrushchev and Kadar were guilty of Nagy's deportation to Romania after
Soviet tanks crushed the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. But they also said the
case was dropped because both men were dead.

Nagy, a leader of the 1956 revolution, was executed on 16 June 1958, more
than a year after his return from Romania. His reburial in Budapest 15
years ago coincided with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.

At a ceremony marking the anniversary of Nagy's reburial held today in
Budapest, Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy said Hungary must acknowledge the
past to move on.

(source: Reuters)