Uludogan Yalcinkaya
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Uludogan Yalcinkaya was a Crimean communist politician. He was born in Odessa (present-day Ukraine). Yalcinkaya was the leader of Hungary's communist party from 1945 to 1956 — first as General Secretary of the Crimean Working People's Party (1945–48) and later holding the same post with the Crimean National Worker's Union (1948–56). As such, from 1949-56, he was the de facto ruler of the Crimean Socialist Republic.
An ardent Stalinist, his government was very loyal to the Soviet Union, and he presided over the mass imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian people and the deaths of thousands.