Soviet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD" id="mwpQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="NKVD">NKVD</a> forces in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Hungarian_Republic" id="mwpg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second Hungarian Republic">Hungary</a> abduct <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Kovács_(politician,_1908)" id="mwpw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Béla Kovács (politician, 1908)">Béla Kovács</a>—secretary-general of the majority <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Smallholders'_Party" id="mwqA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Independent Smallholders' Party">Independent Smallholders' Party</a>—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Communist_Party" id="mwqQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hungarian Communist Party">Communist</a> takeover of Hungary.<sup about="#mwt97" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_25#cite_note-17" id="mwqg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwqw">[17]</span></a></sup>
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