Pál Ilku

Pál Ilku (Bulcsu, Bereg county, 8 October 1912 - Budapest, 13 July 1973) Hungarian communist politician, Major General.

After the defeat of the 1956 revolution, he was a major part of the organization of the armed forces (the "pulegs"), who played an important role in the consolidation of the Hungarian Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government led by János Kádár. Later, he became Deputy Minister of Defense and then Minister of Education.

He was born in Bulchu, near Beregszász. His home village was annexed to the newly formed Czechoslovakia, along with the greater part of the county, according to the Trianon Peace Treaty. He studied elementary and high school studies in his village and in Beregszász. In 1935 he obtained a Master's Degree in Bratislava. [1] Even in the early 1930s, he married Czaban Piroska, whose father (ie father-in-law) and Tsaban Samu in 1935 launched a leftist pedagogical paper entitled New Age. At that time, he had been involved in Czechoslovakian leftist movements for three years and joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1937. [1]

Friends of Zoltán Fábry and Zoltán Schönherz were also friends. He was a young man at the helm of the latter, and he also wrote articles in the Hungarian Workers' Ungvár newspaper and the Hungarian Day in Ostrava. When Transcarpathia reunited with Hungary in May 1939, Ilkut was arrested with many. [1] In the absence of proof they were released soon, but under police supervision, later they were called to a military prison.

In the fall of 1944 he escaped with others and hid in the mountains, after the arrival of the advance Soviet army, Beregszász became party secretary in January of the following year, when he was invited by the Hungarian Communist Party to Debrecen with his family. (At that time the seat of the Hungarian Temporary National Government assisted by the Soviets was in this case.) In Hungary he began to deal with educational policy, and became the functionary of the Pécs, then Budapest Parish School within the party. he first came to parliament in the 1947 elections, from the NPC's national list. From then on, apart from the 1967-1971 cycle, he remained a member of parliamentary assembly until his death. From 1958 he was a member of the MSZMP, between 1962 and 1970 he was deputy member of the Politburo of the MSZMP.

Following the arrival of the Soviet troops on November 4, 1956, Ilku took the lead in setting up the armed forces of the Hungarian Revolutionary Workers 'and Peasants'

"The lesson ... for all of our people: that there is no room for debate, consideration or concern in power, that without command or command, but with the armed destruction of the enemy raising the hand to the people," said Ilku in Parliament in May 1957, in the previous half year hundreds of civilian protesters were killed by the revolts of the restored communist power armies.