Russia · Politics / KGB (Committee for State Security). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Sends reports to the Kremlin from Budapest, and escorting visiting Soviet Presidium leaders Anastas Mikoyan and Mikhail Suslov via an armoured personnel carrier into Budapest on 24 October, because there was too much shooting in the streets
personally supervises the post-invasion "normalization" of Hungary after the revolution. Responsible for arresting supporters of Imre Nagy who were trying to negotiate with Soviet military officials. Serov organized deportations of Hungarians, among them Imre Nagy. Serov co-ordinated the abduction of Pal Maleter, the Hungarian general, and the disruption of peace talks between the Red Army and the Hungarian forces
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