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Mikls Nmeth - Note: Mikls Nmeth is the name of a Hungarian olympic champion as well.
Mikls Nmeth, born in 1948 in Monok, Hungary, served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 23 November, 1988 to 23 May, 1990. He was one of the leaders of the Socialist Workers' Party, Hungary's former Communist party, in the tumultuous years that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. As Prime Minister, Nmeth took the controversial decision to allow East Germans, long held captive by their country's communist regime, to pass through Hungary en route to freedom in West Germany. This decision is widely credited with helping to bring about the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November, 1989. After leaving office in 1990, Nmeth served as Vice President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the financial institution established by the international community to assist the countries of eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union in their transition to democratic market economies. He left the EBRD in 2000 to return to Hungary. He attempted to become the PM-designate of the opposition socialist party, but was unsuccessful, as Pter Medgyessy was appointed to this role. Medgyessy later became Prime Minister. Nmeth, Mikls Nmeth, Mikls
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