Mihály Farkas was a Hungarian

Hungary

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 Communist politician.

From the 1930s he had been a Communist. He lived in Košice

Košice

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 and Prague

Prague

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 then. He fought in the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

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; later he moved to the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. He returned to Hungary in late 1944, and became a member of the Central Committee, the Political Committee and the Secretariat of the Hungarian Communist Party

Hungarian Communist Party

The Communist Party of Hungary , renamed Hungarian Communist Party in 1945, was founded on November 24, 1918, and was in power in Hungary briefly from March to August 1919 under Béla Kun and the Hungarian Soviet Republic. The communist government was overthrown by the Romanian Army and driven...

 from May 1945. In 1945 he became under-secretary of Home Affairs. In 1946 he was elected deputy secretary and became the chairman of the party's Management Committee.

He was Minister of National Defence between 9 September 1948 and 2 July 1953. He was one of the main culprits of the Rákosi

Mátyás Rákosi

Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian communist politician. He was born as Mátyás Rosenfeld, in present-day Serbia...

 era, and in 1956 he was excluded from the party and convicted. He was released from prison in 1961 and spent his last years working as an editor in Budapest.
His son Vladimir was a colonel of security police during the Rákosi regime.

Source

• Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000–1990.