1. Tibor Szamuely was a Hungarian communist politician and journalist who was Deputy People's Commissar of War and People's Commissar of Public Education during the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
13 Facts About Tibor Szamuely
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Tibor Szamuely was drafted and fought as a soldier during World War I; in 1915, he was captured by Russia.
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Tibor Szamuely was a member of the Central Committee, responsible for the management of war prisoners.
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Tibor Szamuely later went to Germany and in December 1918, he participated in the formation of the Spartacist League, with Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
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Tibor Szamuely became a member of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party and joined the editing of the Red Paper.
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Tibor Szamuely was an extremist in his views and his methods.
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Tibor Szamuely occupied a number of posts, but he then was made People's Commissar for Military Affairs.
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Tibor Szamuely became a figure of the so-called "Red Terror" of Hungary.
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Tibor Szamuely's guards became nicknamed the "Lenin Boys" or "Lenin Youth".
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In late May 1919, Tibor Szamuely travelled to Moscow by aeroplane to campaign for world revolution with Vladimir Lenin.
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Tibor Szamuely managed to escape the anticommunist reprisals, known as the "White Terror".
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Tibor Szamuely left for Austria in his car on August 2,1919, but after making an illegal border crossing, he was arrested by the Austrian authorities.
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The wife of Bela Kun wrote in her memoires that Tibor Szamuely had told her of his plan to commit suicide if he was captured, and had shown her a gun hidden in his clothes.