Editing Imre Nagy (section)

==Memorials and political rehabilitation==
[[File:Nagy Imre újratemetése fortepan 77275.jpg|thumb|Nagy's reinterment on 16 June 1989. One of the speakers at the funeral was a young [[Viktor Orbán]], who demanded democratic elections and the withdrawal of the [[Soviet Army]] from the country.]]
During the time when the Stalinist leadership of Hungary would not permit Nagy's death to be commemorated, or permit access to his burial place, a [[cenotaph]] in his honour was erected in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris on 16 June 1988.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=190}}

In 1989, Imre Nagy was rehabilitated and his remains reburied on the 31st anniversary of his execution in the same plot after a funeral organised in part by the democratic opposition to the country's Stalinist regime.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5DD1530F934A25755C0A96F948260 | work=The New York Times | title=Hungarian Who Led '56 Revolt Is Buried as a Hero | first=Henry | last=Kamm | date=17 June 1989 | access-date=5 May 2010}}</ref> Over 200,000 people are estimated to have attended Nagy's reinterment. The occasion of Nagy's funeral was an important factor in the end of the communist government in Hungary.{{sfn|Rainer|2009|p=191}}

On 28 December 2018 a popular statue of Nagy, inaugurated in 1996, was removed from central Budapest to a less central location, in order to make way for a reconstructed memorial to the victims of the [[Red Terror (Hungary)|1919 Red Terror]] that originally stood in the same place from 1934 to 1945, during [[Miklós Horthy]]'s [[Hungary in World War II|pro-Nazi]] [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|regime]]. Opposition parties, mainly liberal, socialist and the remaining communists, accused [[Viktor Orbán]]'s right-wing government of [[historical revisionism]]; his supporters, however, argued that the initiative was taken as an attempt to restore the city landscape to its pre–World War II form and to "erase the traces of the communist era".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46704111|title=Hungary removes uprising hero's statue|date=28 December 2018|access-date=26 January 2019|publisher=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://hungarytoday.hu/the-relocation-of-imre-nagys-statue-draws-controversy|title=The Relocation of Imre Nagy's Statue Draws Controversy|date=8 January 2019|access-date=24 April 2021|publisher=HungaryToday|archive-date=29 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929014530/https://hungarytoday.hu/the-relocation-of-imre-nagys-statue-draws-controversy/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-removes-statue-of-anti-soviet-icon-imre-nagy/a-46891712|title=Hungary removes statue of anti-Soviet icon Imre Nagy – DW – 29.12.2018|website=DW.COM|access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thesundaily.my/world/hungary-s-orban-under-fire-for-removing-statue-CA323004|title=Hungary's Orban under fire for removing statue|website=The Sun|location=Malaysia|access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref>