1956 National Guard commander Bela Kiraly dies
Budapest - Bela Kiraly, a key figure in Hungary's ill-fated anti-Soviet revolution in 1956, died at the age of 97, the Ministry of Defence told MTI on Saturday.
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Inaugurated as an officer in 1935, Kadar graduated from the Budapest Military Academy in 1942, then took part in the Second World War. Promoted to general in 1950, he became commander of the Military Academy. A year later, however, he was sentenced to death, later mitigated to life imprisonment, under the trumped-up charge of conspiracy against the state.
A key phase of his life was the 1956 revolution and freedom fight when Kiraly served as commander-in-chief of the National Guard and the military commander of Budapest.
After the uprising he fled to Austria and later emigrated to the United States, where he lectured at universities. He worked as a military historian and wrote several volumes during the decades of emigration.
In 1989 Kiraly returned to Hungary to become one of the speakers at the reburial ceremony of Imre Nagy, prime minister in 1956, and his associates executed in 1958.
From 1990 to 1994 Kiraly was an independent member of Hungary's first freely elected post-communist Parliament.
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