Sándor Haraszti

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Sándor Haraszti (Czinderybogád (today Bogadmindszent), November 18, 1897 - Budapest, 19 January 1982) was a journalist and politician.

He graduated in Pécs in 1917 and then he became a railway official. During the Soviet Republic he fought in the Red Army. In 1919 he became a member of the Socialist Party. In 1921 he emigrated to the Croat-Slovene Kingdom, where he worked as a journalist at the Bács-megye Napló and Hírlap. In 1929 he returned to Hungary. From 1930 he worked as a colleague at the left-wing journal of Korunk, Cluj-Napoca. He was several times in jail for his party activities.

Between 1945 and 1948 he was editor of the Freedom newspaper, then deputy leader of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda at MDPKB. From 1949 he became Director of Athenaeum Publishing. On November 28, 1950, he was arrested and sentenced to death under trumped up charges, later changed to life imprisonment. He was rehabilitated in 1954 and was editor-in-chief of Peace and Freedom. In the following period he was one of the leading individuals of the reformers grouping around Imre Nagy. In October 1955, Miklós Vásárhelyi launched a protest against the limitation of cultural life. The memorandum was initially signed by 59 people, but several of them withdrew their signatures and only eight of them were: Tamás Aczél, László Benjámin, Tibor Déry, Sándor Haraszti, Géza Losonczy, Endre Szervánszky and Miklós Vásárhelyi. As a result of the memorandum, Miklós Vásárhelyi was expelled from the party.

In July 1956, they returned to the party. From October 31, 1956 he became the editor-in-chief of the new party newspaper, Népszabadság. With Márton Horváth, two drafts of the radio talk in which János Kádár announced the formation of the MSZMP on November 1. On November 4, 1956, he fled to the Yugoslav embassy with Imre Nagy's group and then interned to Snagov (Romania). On 19 August 1958 he was sentenced to six years in prison. In 1960 he was granted amnesty. Then he worked at the Academy Publishing House until 1980. He was editor of Beszélő, founded in 1981.