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Andras Hegedus

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Politician and sociologist Andras Hegedus gained a scholarship to study electrical engineering at the Technical University in Budapest, Hungary. He joined the Communist movement, and in 1944 was imprisoned for two years for anti-government activities. The Communist Party sent him into the countryside to oversee the land reform of 1945, and in 1947 he became an adviser to politician Erno Gero. His political career progressed rapidly, and at the age of 32 he became Europe's youngest prime minister.

Hungary, Hegedus, Andras

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Adil Carcani

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Politician Adil Carcani joined the Communist Party in Albania in 1942, serving as a divisional commissar in the Communist guerrilla army. He became a member of the ruling Politburo in 1956, and was elected deputy prime minister in 1965. He became prime minister at the beginning of 1982, even though he had almost no experience of foreign affairs or security issues. He remained an orthodox Communist, and could not come to terms with the changes which took place in Albania in the 1990s.

Carcani, Adil

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