Andras Laurinets

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Andras Laurinets ( Hungarian Laurinyecz András ; January 24, 1927, Kondorosh - November 29, 1957, Budapest ) - a Hungarian worker- miner, an active participant in the 1956 anti-communist Hungarian uprising. Executed after the suppression of the uprising. In modern Hungary is considered a hero of the revolution.

Born into a poor peasant family. In 1930, Andrash Laurinets’s father committed suicide after a psychological upheaval — he was seized by the Horthy gendarmes without guilt and led by convoy around the village. Mother worked as a servant for hire.

After graduating from school, Andras Laurinets entered the law faculty of the University of Szeged in 1948. He studied at the evening department, and he worked in factories.

In March 1950, Andrash Laurinets was arrested for “illegal possession of weapons” - it was about several cartridges he had found for a German machine gun. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, replaced by 6 years in prison. Freed in July 1956. During the detention, his mother died.

He could not continue his education. He worked as a miner in the coal basin of Pest. Subsequently, he said that he saw how to get a normal salary could only someone who had connections with the authorities.

In October 1956, Andras Laurinets supported the anti-communist Hungarian uprising. With a group of like-minded miners headed by Laszlo Rusnyak he arrived in Budapest. He joined the rebel group that controlled the Sen square, which was headed by Jozsef Dudash and Janos Sabo.

He was one of the commanders of the "Miner's brigade" of the rebels. Actively participated in the battles, including in a major clash on October 28. As part of the rebel group, Robert Bana tried to retreat from Budapest to the Austrian border in order to expand the fight in the province. November 4 was captured by the Soviet troops. Was delivered to the USSR, was kept in Uzhgorod.

December 15, 1956 Andras Laurinets was sent to Hungary, but on December 22 he was arrested by the authorities of Hungary. Appeared before the court in the framework of the process of the “Miner's Brigade”. At trial, held firmly. The October uprising called it “revolution, not“ counter-revolution, ”as Andropov says. ”

He was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on November 29, 1957. Together with Andrash Laurinets, Robert Ban, Laszlo Rusnjak, Tibor Zimer were executed [3].

In modern Hungary, Andras Laurinets is considered a hero of the revolution. In Sarvas there is a memorial, on which his name is marked among others