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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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Matyas RAKOSI: Hungarian. This leading communist politician was sentenced to life...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/4502
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This record is about the Matyas RAKOSI: Hungarian. This leading communist politician was sentenced to life... dating from 1952 Oct 13 - 1966 Nov 5 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KV 2/4502
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1952 Oct 13 - 1966 Nov 5
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Description (What the record is about)
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Matyas RAKOSI: Hungarian. This leading communist politician was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Hungarian authorities in 1935 but was later released allowing him to go to the USSR. Always Moscow's man, in 1946 he returned to Hungary to become Vice-Premier of the communist government and First Secretary of the Communist Party. His harsh rule was blamed by the Soviet Union for the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, and RAKOSI was forced to resign and retire to the Soviet Union. With photograph
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PF 90152 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2019
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17023871/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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