Hungary hanged Imre Nagy in 1958 and buried him face down under a woman's name, and over 200,000 people came to his reburial in 1989

Imre Nagy was Hungary's prime minister during the 1956 revolution. After Soviet troops crushed it, János Kádár's government tried him in secret for treason. He was hanged in June 1958, and the trial and execution were announced afterwards. He was buried with his co-defendants in the courtyard of the Kozma Street prison, with old furniture placed over the grave. In February 1961 the bodies were moved in secret to plot 301, the last numbered plot of the New Public Cemetery at Rákoskeresztúr. The cemetery register listed Nagy under a woman's name, Piroska Borbíró. In 1988 Colonel József Pajcsics was ordered to find the grave. In the secret state archive he found a file holding two maps and a handwritten note. Exhumation began in April 1989. The bodies lay face down, bundled in tar paper, with their hands bound with wire. Nagy was identified by his specially made dentures. On 16 June 1989, the 31st anniversary of his execution, the coffins lay in state at Heroes' Square. Estimates of the crowd run from over 200,000 to 250,000. Viktor Orbán gave his first public speech there. Nagy was reburied in plot 301. A cenotaph had been put up for him in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, in 1988, while the grave was still barred. His daughter, Erzsébet Nagy, died in 2008. Plot 301 is now a national memorial with a visitor centre.