Item COLD WAR 14/10 - Transcript of interview with politician Imre Pozsgay, 1997

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COLD WAR 14/10

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Transcript of interview with politician Imre Pozsgay, 1997

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  • 1997 Nov (Creation)

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8pp

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Typescript transcript of interview with Imre Pozsgay, Hungarian Minister of State, 1988-1989, and reform leader, relating to the economic and political reforms occurring in Hungary, 1980-1989, including, the significance of the policies of Mikhail Gorbachev on the Hungarian government; the opening of the Hungarian borders, Hungary's response to refugees from the German Democratic Republic; support of Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) for economic reform in Hungary; the reassessment of the 1956 uprising and reburial of its leader Imre Nagy, Hungarian Prime Minister, 1953-1955, 1956, executed by the Soviets in 1958; and the visit of George Herbert Walker Bush, US President 1989-1993 to Hungary. 8pp

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