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Date | April - August 1919 |
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Location | Hungarian Soviet Republic |
Motive | Political repression |
Target | Anti-Communist groups, counter-revolutionaries, and dissidents |
Organized by | Party of Communists in Hungary
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Deaths | 370-590 (estimates) |
The Red Terror in Hungary (Hungarian: vörösterror) was a period of repressive violence and suppression carried out by the Hungarian Communist Party in 1919 during the four-month period of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, primarily towards anti-communist forces, and others deemed "enemies of the state".
The new government followed the Bolshevik method: the party established its revolutionary terror groups, such as the Lenin Boys, to "overcome the obstacles" of the worker's revolution. It received its name in reference to the Red Terror in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War. It is estimated that up to 590 people were killed in the terror.