Janos Kadar's Accomplishments

There have been many European leaders in the past 115 years ,but one stood out overall all the others. His name was Janos Kadar. Janos Kadar was the General Secretary of Hungary, which is one of the 51 countries in Europe. He was born in 1912 at Fiume, Hungary and grew up with foster parents up till he was 6. Janos Kadar had many Accomplishments as well as failures and to this day people still see him for the great and dreadful man that he was. Machiavelli was an expert in his writings and was able to tell different things that some people still follow to this day. Janos Kadar was a great example of how we still use Machiavelli’s theories to this day. Janos Kadar joined a communist party in 1932 at the age of 20 secretly. This was a huge
This gave him love from the people because they saw that he was doing good deeds. Machiavelli would have agreed with what he had done because he believed it was good to be feared and loved and in this example Janos was both. Machiavelli says,” Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both”(ch. 17).
This quote from Machiavelli states that he believes that the strongest of leaders are able to get their citizens to love and fear them. For instance, Machiavelli says,” Knowing the ambition of the nobility and their boldness, considered that a bit to their mouths would be necessary to hold them in; and, on the other side, knowing the hatred of the people, founded in fear, against the nobles, he wished to protect them”(ch. 19). This is saying that it is good to do good deeds every once in a while so that your citizens could like you. Janos Kadar was good at making people to like him when he need it the most and that is one of the things that made him a great leader. Although Janos Kadar had some accomplishments he also had some failures. On October 31st, 1956 Kadar left the government in disgust and established a rival government in