Editing State Protection Authority (section)

===End of ÁVH===
The subsequent government of [[János Kádár]] did not wish to resurrect the ÁVH under this name after 1956 (Kádár was tortured by the ÁVH in the 1950s), yet it flourished in the system of the Ministry of Interior (Hungarian BM). This should be considered in the light of the use of the Soviet security apparatus directly in Hungary after the 1956 revolution, and in preparation for the trial of Nagy and "his accomplices". Between 1956 and 1963 Kádár, a natural opportunist, fought an inner party battle against hardline Stalinists, although he accepted the services of many cruel former AVH torturers.

Kádár's victory was signalled in 1963 by a general [[amnesty]] for the 1956 revolutionaries, an indication of the absence of a political police. Hungary would go on to be the only [[Warsaw Pact]] country without a formal intelligence service, since all intelligence and espionage functions were vested in the AVH, and later the Hungarian Ministry of Interior.