1958: Istvan Angyal, Hungarian revolutionary

ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 1, 2018 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1958, Angyal Istvan was hanged for the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. A working-class Jew who survived Auschwitz as a boy — his mother and sister were not so fortunate — Angyal was a convinced leftist who became disaffected with the Hungarian regime not because of its Communism but because of its failure to realize the democratic and egalitarian aspirations of that ideology....

[dfwgator]

Angyal was a convinced leftist who became disaffected with the Hungarian regime not because of its Communism but because of its failure to realize the democratic and egalitarian aspirations of that ideology....

So basically he thought that socialism would work if only the right people were running it.

[waterhill]

I enjoy the threads, just wish that they were more latter than former.

[lump in the melting pot]

So basically he thought that socialism would work if only the right people were running it

Ironically, he probably thought that it would work if only the right people were hanged.

[Fiji Hill]

A song that honors the Hungarian freedom fighters:

Avanti, Ragazzi di Buda (charge, boys of Buda)--sine nomine (1957)

[Zhang Fei]

[So basically he thought that socialism would work if only the right people were running it. ]

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I think a lot of communists thought the system would involve the popular vote rather than what it turned out to be - kings with the title of General Secretary or Party Chairman, along with aristocrats, the nomenklatura, with the title of commissar or secretary of this or that. They were wrong. Communism not only turned out to be a semi-hereditary monarchy complete with aristocracy - it was far more repressive than the monarchies it replaced. While repression can keep a lid on things for a while, it can equally distort reality until a blow-off event occurs, upon which all bets are off. The Soviet bloc could have have kept its repressive regimen for a while, but the further it clamped down, the harsher the blowback would have been. In a way, the place isn’t completely de-communized partly because the kind of large-scale killings of dissidents to which dying regimes are prone did not occur there.

[dfwgator]

You cannot have socialism without a Police State, period. I don’t care who is running it.

[CheshireTheCat]

Thank you, but I am not sure what you mean by more “latter than former.”

Some days there are really no interesting people in history who were executed. Other days it is a tough choice from a few interesting people.

Dec. 1 wasn’t a really interesting day.

[muleskinner]

Istvaan 3

[Sans-Culotte]

Thank you, but I am not sure what you mean by more “latter than former.”

I think he or she meant it would be nice to read about some recent executions of traitors. Alas, that will never be.