László Alapi

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László Alapi (Pásztó, December 10, 1920 - Budapest, May 6, 1957) was the first victim of retribution after the Revolution of 1956.

His life
He completed six elementary classes, then worked with his father as a day-laborer. During the Second World War he was classified as a soldier, on the Russian front he was subjected to war crimes, from which he only came back in 1948. In the same year he was called for military service, and he was installed as a head of the unit. After that he worked for a while as a miner, but because of his poor health he was forced to abandon this work and started to work as a cart trainer at the Pásztó Dairy Company.

During the revolution, István Geczkó dealt with the delivery of dairy products from Pásztó to Salgótarján. On December 4, at his suggestion, explosives were acquired with the intention of destroying the railway bridge between Pásztó and Szurdokpüspöki, thus preventing the Hungarian young people from being deported to the Soviet Union. The destruction was carried out on 8 December, with complete success, and the bridge remained useless for days.

The Hungarian authorities launched an investigation. Alapi was arrested on April 23, 1957, and the Military Court sentenced him to death on 6 May 1957 as the intellectual controller of the sabotage act, abusing explosives. The judgement was executed on that day.

László Alapi was rehabilitated in 1990 with the rest of the retaliation after the 1956 Revolution.