Horn, Gyula

Graduated from Rostov Institute of Finance and Economics . During the 1956 uprising, he joined the pufajkás , volunteer groups that assisted Soviet forces in crushing the uprising; for his activities during the suppression of the uprising was awarded. He worked in the ministries of finance and foreign affairs. Since 1969 - in the embassies of the Hungarian People’s Republic in Bulgaria and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, since 1974 - Deputy Head of the International Department of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Socialist Party.

In 1983, he became head of the international department of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Socialist Party. In 1985, he became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Socialist Party. In the Central Committee, he headed the commission on international problems and international legal policy ^[2] . In the government of Miklos Nemeth (1988-1990) was Minister of Foreign Affairs; gained world fame by the opening of the Iron Curtain .

In 1989, he acted as one of the founders of the Hungarian Socialist Party on the basis of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party and became a member of the Presidium of the party. In 1994, he became prime minister in the coalition government of the socialists and the Alliance of Free Democrats . In 1995-1996, an economic program was carried out in Hungary, known as the Bocrosh Plan (named after the author of the reform package, Laszlo Bokrosh ), which included devaluation of the forint , reduction of social payments, and the introduction of an import tax ^[3] . Despite the successful stabilization of macroeconomic indicators (budget deficit decreased from 9.6% to 3.8%, foreign trade balance - from 9.4% to 3.8% ^[3] ), the popularity of Horn and VSP fell due to a drop in real volume wages, which led to the defeat of the socialists in the 1998 elections (VSP received 134 seats in parliament instead of the previous 208).