János Vörös was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence in the unofficial Interim National Government which led by Béla Miklós

Béla Miklós

Knight Béla Miklós de Dálnok was a Hungarian military officer and politician who served as acting Prime Minister of Hungary, at first in opposition, and then officially, from 1944 to 1945.-Early career:...

. He fought in the First World War at the Eastern Front

Eastern Front (World War I)

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 and the Italian Campaign

Italian Campaign (World War I)

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. He was appointed as Chief of Army Staff on 19 March 1944, when the Nazis occupied Hungary

Operation Margarethe

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. Later he joined to the Red Army

Red Army

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 which arrived to Hungary's eastern border.

He was the signer of the Moscow armistice convention as one of the members of the Interim Government delegation. In 1946 he was retired by them his own request. During his 58th birthday (1949) he was arrested with the charge of spying by the military investigation service. The Military Courthouse sentenced to life imprisonment

Life imprisonment

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him in 1950. Vörös left the prison in 1956 after that he lived desolately and poorly.