The Soviet government acknowledged that Kun had actually been executed in the Kommunarka more than a year earlier than that, on 29 August 1938
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Béla Kun
Béla Kun was a Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician who in 1919 governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
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culture · Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician (1886–1938) · politician · diplomat · journalist · communist · revolutionary · author · reserve officer · also Béla Kun, Béla Kohn, Emmerich Schwarz, Elemér Schwarz, Imre Schwarz, Bela Kun
Born 20 February 1886 · Died 29 August 1938 · Q151646
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1956· 2 entries
Following Joseph Stalin's death and the Soviet Union's de-Stalinization under Nikita Khrushchev, he was posthumously rehabilitated by the Soviet leadership
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As part of de-Stalinization, the Soviet Communist Party told its Hungarian counterpart that Kun had died in prison on 30 November 1939
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1938· 1 entry
Died 1938-08-29.
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1934· 1 entry
Kun was charged with preparing the agenda for the 7th Congress of the Comintern, in which the Social Fascism line was to be abandoned and the Popular Front was to be the new line for Communists all over the world, a poli
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1928· 1 entry
When he was arrested in Vienna by the local police for travelling on a forged passport
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1921· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of ECCI (1921).
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Showed that 441 people were shot with a modern estimation that 5,000–12,000 people in total were executed in Crimea
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1919· 1 entry
Career landmark: People's Commissar (1919–1919).
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1918· 2 entries
In Moscow he co-founded a Hungarian arm of the Russian Communist Party
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Kun fought for the Bolsheviks
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1916· 1 entry
And was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in the Ural Mountains
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1904· 3 entries
Began to study law at Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár
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Although the almanac of the university still referred to him in print by his former name as late as 1909
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Studied at Franz Joseph University (1904).
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1902· 1 entry
Studied at Calvinist College in Zilah (1902).
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1886· 1 entry
Born 1886-02-20.
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