Árpád Brusznyai

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Árpád Brusznyai (Derekegyház, 27 June 1924 - Budapest, 9 January 1958), high school teacher, executed martyr of the 1956 Revolution.

Árpád Brusznyai was born on June 27, 1924, his father was a gendarme. The talent of the boy was already in his early years. [1] He also received a scholarship during his secondary school years in his studies and in sports life. In 1947 he continued his studies as a scholar in Vienna, and in 1949 he obtained his diploma and a diploma in Greek-Hungarian history.

In 1949-50 he worked in Budapest as Assistant Professor at the Greek Philological Institute of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. His father was imprisoned, his Roman-Catholic brother was interned, and he was dismissed from the university. From 1950 he became a canton of the Vác cathedral. In this town he met Ilona, ​​who later became his wife and never left.

During the 1956 Revolution he worked in Veszprém. He organized his young disciples into a revolutionary group, but never allowed them near an armed struggle to preserve their lives. With his determined action, several local AVH and hated party captives caught up by city insurgents fleeing from the lynching, and got into the "normal" custody of the Revolutionary Authority, awaiting court proceedings. Nevertheless, Brusznya was accused in a conception lawsuit (Brusznyai-per) in retaliation for organizing an armed conspiracy for the violent overthrow of the popular democratic state system and committing crimes of ethnic origin. The Judicial Council of the Hungarian Patriotic Court of Military Tribunal judged the "only" imprisonment for life imprisonment, taking into account the evidence provided by him. However, János Pap, the local leader of the MSZMP, who was dissatisfied with the "mild" judgment, personally intervened, having Brusznya condemned to death by the Council of the Supreme Court. In order to save him, several well-known Hungarian intellectuals, including Zoltán Kodály, intervened with the Kádár government, but unsuccessfully. Brusnia was executed on January 9, 1958, and his body was buried in an undisclosed grave.

During the 1989-90 change of regime, Árpád Brusznyai and his martyrs were rehabilitated and honored. The Hungarian Democratic Press publicly began to talk to János Pap, the personal, acting contributor to the death sentence of Brusznya, of the High Representative of the Veszprém County MSZMP. In the wake of the public outcry, the former party leader was also charged with criminal responsibility. Pap escaped suicide in 1994. Suggest an edit