Illustrations in the Decorative Edition of the Fundamental Law
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- The Age of Dualism (1867–1918): Dual Monarchy-era prime ministers Kálmán Széll, István Tisza and Sándor Wekerle and Minister of Religion and Public Education Albert Apponyi.
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- The First World War (1914–1918): Hungarian hussars in battle.
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- The Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919): “To Arms!” Slogan from the 133-day Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919.
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- Trianon (1920): French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau/or liberal post-System Change President Árpád Göncz; Hungarian Soviet Republic leader Béla Kun; Versailles Peace Conference delegation leader Albert Apponyi; King Charles of Hungary; and post-First World War Prime Minister/President Károlyi Mihály.
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- The Miklós Horthy Era: Regent Miklós Horthy, Hungary’s head of state from 1920 to 1944.
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- The Second World War (1939–1945): an Allied bomber swoops down on a family grieving over the corpse of a fallen Hungarian soldier.
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- Holocaust (1940–1945): Nazi concentration-camp prisoners and those responsible for their deportation.
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- The Mátyás Rákosi Era (1949–1956): Archbishop of Esztergom József Mindszenty praying over Hungarian Workers’ Party General Secretary Mátyás Rákosi, Hungary’s Stalinist leader from 1948 to 1956, and the body of a tortured political prisoner.
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- Revolution and Freedom Fight (1956): civilian figures from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
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- The János Kádár Era (1956–1989): Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party General Secretary János Kádár, Hungary’s communist leader from the end of the 1956 revolution until the beginning of the System Change in 1988.
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- Reburial of Imre Nagy (1989): reburial of 1956 Hungarian Revolution political leader Imre Nagy in Heroes’ Square in Budapest.
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- Cavalry Charge: charge of mounted police to disperse anti-government demonstrations in Budapest on the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution on October 23, 2006.
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- National Theater: famous actors and actresses from the National Theater in Budapest.
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- The Red Sludge: October 2010 red-sludge spill from the waste reservoir at the aluminum-oxide plant in the village of Ajka in west-central Hungary.
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- Birth of a New Constitution: prominent Hungarian political and cultural figures.
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