Editing Imre Nagy (section)

==Minister in Communist Hungary==
[[File:1953. június, középen Nagy Imre késöbbi miniszterelnök Moszkvából történő hazaérkezésekor Fortepan 74232.jpg|thumb|left|Nagy after his arrival from Moscow in June 1953.]]
After the Second World War, Nagy returned to [[Hungary]]. He was the Minister of Agriculture in the government of [[Béla Miklós]] de Dálnok, delegated by the Hungarian Communist Party. He distributed land among the peasant population. In the next government, led by [[Zoltán Tildy|Tildy]], he was the Minister of Interior. At this period he played an active role in the [[Expulsion of Germans after World War II#Hungary|expulsion of the Hungarian Germans]].<ref><sub>(hu)</sub> [http://www.mancs.hu/index.php?gcPage=/public/hirek/hir2.php&id=17419 Imre Nagy's unknown life, in Magyar Narancs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928001756/https://www.mancs.hu/index.php?gcPage=%2Fpublic%2Fhirek%2Fhir2.php&id=17419 |date=28 September 2020 }}</ref>

In the communist government, he served as [[Minister of Agriculture]] and in other posts. He was also [[Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary]] from 1947 to 1949, a largely ceremonial position.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=45}} In 1951, he signed, with the rest of the Politburo, the note ordering [[János Kádár]]'s arrest, resulting in Kádár's sentencing to life in prison after a [[show trial]].{{sfn|Granville|2004|p=23}}

After two years as [[List of Prime Ministers of Hungary|Chairman]] of the [[Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic]] (1953–1955), during which he promoted his "New Course" in Socialism, Nagy fell out of favour with the Soviet Politburo. He was deprived of his Hungarian Central Committee, Politburo, and all other Party functions and, on 18 April 1955, he was sacked as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=82}}