Partisan Badge

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Here is a photo from the magazine RUBICON (Jan 2007) of Tompe Andras - the leader of the National Political Police from 1945-1946. He was an engineer turned partisan at the end of the war. His coleague was Gabor Peter was in charge of the Budapest Political Police - however Gabor had friends in higher places when in 1946 the Interior Minister Laszlo Rajk combined the two departemns into the AVO - or State Security which was trained and operated by the NKVD. Notice the uniform (WW1 vinstage?) and the partisan badge