Moscow - The last known second World War prisoner-of-war, a Hungarian who has been interned in a Russian mental institution for 53 years, walked free yesterday and was to fly to his homeland the same day, NTV private television reported.
Mr Andras Tamas (75), was taken prisoner by the Soviet army shortly before the end of the war, and in 1947 he was shipped to a psychiatric hospital in Kotelnich, about 800 km east of Moscow.