East Hungary (Giovinezza)

East Hungary, officially the Hungarian People's Republic (Hungarian: Magyar Népköztársaság) was the former socialist state that governed the eastern portion of post-WWII Hungary, which was occupied by Soviet forces. It was governed by the Socialist Workers' Party and bordered the Kingdom of Hungary to the west, the Italian-aligned government of Hungary. The state considered itself the heir to the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 and sought to one day unite the country against the west. It was a satellite state of the Soviet Union and part of the Warsaw Pact. East Hungary would last until 1989, when a revolution gripped the country and a provisional democratic government was established. The country then reunited with its western counterpart and transitioned to a stable democratic government under Otto von Hapsburg.