Other Deaths this week

Bela Kiraly, 97, one of the military leaders of Hungary's short-lived anti- Soviet revolution in 1956, died Saturday in Budapest, the Magyar Nemzet newspaper reported. Kiraly served in the Hungarian army during World War II and later led its military academy. In 1952, he was sentenced to death on trumped-up conspiracy charges by Hungary's Stalinist regime, but the sentence was later commuted to life in prison. The October 1956 revolution, aimed at overthrowing the communist regime, lasted less than two weeks before it was crushed. Kiraly had been freed from prison just weeks before the revolution, and during it, he was named Budapest's military commander and head of the National Guard. After the revolution, Kiraly continued to advocate for its cause and testified at the United Nations. He settled in the United States,... [read full story]                    

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