Béla Kun
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Béla Kun was a Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician who in 1919 governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
Béla Kun with his family in 1915
Kun in a 1919 Comintern publication
Sándor Garbai and Béla Kun, leaders of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919
Béla Kun was the leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1919
Mátyás Rákosi
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Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian communist politician who was the de facto leader of Hungary from 1948 to 1956. He served first as General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party from 1945 to 1948 and
Béla Kun
…left-wing political opposition to Lenin and the mainstream Bolsheviks. Kun and his friends, such as the Italian Umberto Terracini and the Hungarian Mátyás Rákosi, aggregated around Grigory Zinoviev or Karl Radek. Whereas Lenin advocated making peace with the Central Powers, despite the harsh conditions they…
Mátyás Rákosi General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party
Mátyás Rákosi in 1919
Pesti Napló newspaper 25.09.1925: Mátyás Rákosi had been captured by police
Mátyás Rákosi escorted by police September 1925