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What role did his reburial play in the Hungarian political scene?

  • Caused a revolution

  • Played a key role in the collapse of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party regime

  • Started a war

  • Had no significance

Answer

The reburial of Imre Nagy in 1989 played a key role in the collapse of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party regime. Nagy was a reformist communist who had been prime minister of Hungary in 1956. He was overthrown by the Soviet Union and executed in 1958. His reburial was a symbolic act of defiance against the Soviet Union and the communist regime in Hungary.
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