Vaszilíu Jórgosz

From the longer English and Hungarian  Wikipedia pages.

Jorgos Vaszilíu (Greek: Γιώργος Βασιλείου) Cypriot politician, economist and businessman, Third President of the Republic of Cyprus. One of the founders of the Petőfi Circle and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Founder and former leader of the Cypriot, Liberal United Democrats (EDI) party.

After the war, in 1948, Jorgos Vassilíut's parents were sent to Geneva to study at the medical university. He started his second year in Vienna, but moved to Hungary in early 1950 following his mother and sister. But the Hungarian Communist Party also prevented her living with her mother and continuing her medical studies. He has earned a degree of qualification and became an alumni factory in Zugló. He changed his plans based on his experience as a factory worker, and when the Communists in 1951 allowed the Greek refugees to continue their studies, the young Vassilíu became a student of the Marx Károly University of Economics. His teachers included Imre Nagy, a later martyr prime minister, Pach Zsigmond Pál and Tamás Nagy economist - but also visited the seminary of György Lukács. He graduated in 1955 and became a member of the Institute of Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Vassiliou's father Vasos was a member of the central committee of AKEL, the Cypriot Communist party. He was a doctor by profession, and volunteered as a doctor on the side of the Communists in the Greek Civil War. During the civil war, the rest of the Vassiliou family settled in Hungary. Vassiliou himself went to university in Hungary and was a student of Imre Nagy. He fled Hungary following the Soviet invasion and continued his studies at the University of London.

As a foreign student, he had access to Western press products and shared the information she had received with his friends. As a result of these and his personal experiences, and especially the Rajk cause, Vaszilíu, together with several of his friends, became disillusioned the communists in 1955. He became a founding member of the Petőfi Circle and actively participated in his work. It was present at the beginning of the 1956 revolution when the first firefight broke out at the building of the Hungarian Radio. Though he did not attend the armed actions, he spent the days of the revolution on the street.

At the beginning of 1957, taking advantage of his English-speaking citizenship with Cypriot origin, he traveled to London and smuggled the pamphlet Hungaricus. He remained in Hungary in the early years of retaliation but in 1959 he decided to leave the country. But he was arrested this year and was detained for two days for the smuggling of the pamphlet. Because of his foreign nationality, he avoided the jail and was expelled from the party. His dissertation could still be completed in Hungary but he left the country in 1960.