<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Nagy" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ferenc Nagy">Ferenc Nagy</a>, the democratically elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Hungary" id="mw6g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of Hungary">Prime Minister of Hungary</a>, resigns from office after blackmail from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Communist_Party" id="mw6w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hungarian Communist Party">Hungarian Communist Party</a> accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.<sup about="#mwt57" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_31#cite_note-11" id="mw7A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw7Q">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"> The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Hungary 1944-1953, Part 2.<a class="external text" href="http://www.rev.hu/history_of_45/ora2/ora2_e.htm" id="mwBq8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Communist take-over, 1946–1949</a></span>