Patriotic People's Front

Patriotic People's Front Hazafias Népfront
Founded	May 1944 (1944-05)
Dissolved	June 1990
Succeeded by	Patriotic Electoral Coalition
Headquarters	Budapest, Hungary
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism Stalinism (before 1956) Kádárism (after 1956)
Political position	Far-left
Colors	Red
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The Patriotic People's Front (Hungarian: Hazafias Népfront, HNF) was originally a Hungarian political resistance movement during World War II which become later an alliance of political parties in the Hungarian People's Republic. In the latter role, it was dominated by the Communist Party–known as the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) from 1948 to 1956 and the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) from 1956 onward.