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Béla Kun

1886–1938 · 20th century

Béla Kun was a Hungarian communist who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic of March to August 1919. A former prisoner of war in Russia, he founded the Hungarian Communist Party in November 1918, and his regime nationalised industry and land and carried out a Red Terror. After its fall he fled to Austria and then Soviet Russia, where he was executed in Stalin's purges.

Béla Kun
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Hungarian Soviet Republic

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