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==Secret trial and execution== [[File:Nagy Imre statue, Jászai Mari tér.jpg|thumb|300px|Imre Nagy statue at Jászai Mari tér in [[Budapest]].]] Subsequently, the Soviets returned Nagy to Hungary, where he was secretly charged with organizing the overthrow of the Hungarian People's Republic and with treason.<ref>[https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/880 Rainer, Janos. '' Imre Nagy: A Biography'']</ref> Nagy was secretly tried, found guilty, sentenced to death and executed by hanging in June 1958.<ref>Richard Solash, [http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/06/3c9b40e0-f493-49d4-a33d-6d93c1580bb1.html "Hungary: U.S. President To Honour 1956 Uprising"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709055810/http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/06/3c9b40e0-f493-49d4-a33d-6d93c1580bb1.html |date=9 July 2008 }}, [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]], 20 June 2006</ref> His trial and execution were made public only after the sentence had been carried out.<ref>''The Counter-revolutionary Conspiracy of Imre Nagy and his Accomplices'' White Book, published by the Information Bureau of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic (No date).</ref> According to Fedor Burlatsky, a [[Kremlin]] insider, [[Nikita Khrushchev]] had Nagy executed, "as a lesson to all other leaders in socialist countries".<ref>[[David Pryce-Jones]], [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-156123156.html "What the Hungarians wrought: the meaning of October 1956"], ''[[National Review]]'', 23 October 2006</ref> American journalist [[John Gunther]] described the events leading to Nagy's death as "an episode of unparalleled infamy".<ref name="Gunther">{{cite book |last=Gunther |first=John |author-link=John Gunther |title=Inside Europe Today |year=1961 |publisher=[[Harper & Brothers]] |location=New York City |page=337 |lccn=61009706 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwhIAAAAMAAJ&q=+%22an+episode+of+unparalleled+infamy%22 }}</ref> Nagy was buried, along with his co-defendants, in the prison yard where the executions were carried out and years later was removed to a distant corner (section 301) of the [[New Public Cemetery, Budapest]],<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4D8143FF93BA35751C0A96F948260 | work=The New York Times | title=Budapest Journal; The Lasting Pain of '56: Can the Past Be Reburied? | first=Henry | last=Kamm | date=8 February 1989 | access-date=5 May 2010}}</ref> face-down, and with his hands and feet tied with [[barbed wire]]. Next to his grave stands a memorial bell inscribed in [[Latin]], Hungarian, German and English. The Latin reads: "Vivos voco / Mortuos plango / Fulgura frango", which is translated as: "I call the living, I mourn the dead, I break the thunderbolts".<ref>1798 Friedrich Schiller "Song of the Bell"</ref>
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