About Béla Vágó
Lived 1881 – 1939 (aged 57). Béla Vágó was a Hungarian journalist and politician.
Béla Vágó (born Béla Weiss; 9 August 1881 in Kecskemét – 10 March 1939) was a Hungarian communist politician, who served as de facto Interior Minister with Jenő Landler during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. After the fall of the communist regime, he emigrated to the Soviet Union.
Death He was arrested on 28 February 1939 on fabricated charges (espionage, counter-revolutionary activity), then sentenced to death on 10 March; the sentence being executed that day. He was buried in the Donskoye Cemetery, Common Grave No. 1. He was rehabilitated on 25 February 1956.
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Hungarian politician (1881-1939)
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Béla Vágó was born on 9 August 1881 in Kecskemét.
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Béla Vágó died on 10 March 1939 in Soviet Union.
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Béla Vágó was a journalist and politician.
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Béla Vágó was Hungarian.
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