Communism -- Hungary; Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1918-1919 -- Personal narratives; Tormay, Cécile, 1876-1937 -- Diaries
See pp. 96–98.
Footnote 10:
See vol. i., p. 70.
Footnote 11:
A story which is far from improbable, though it certainly sounds like
a popular anecdote, runs to the effect that, at a trial of one of the
proletarian tribunals, in answer to the ‘Public Prosecutor’s’
question: ‘Where did you take the stolen articles?’ one of the persons
accused of theft said, ‘To the woman in Budafok to whom you and I took
that bicycle last year!’
Footnote 12:
A photograph of her is reproduced at p. 140 of this volume.
Footnote 13:
See also pp. 185–186.
Footnote 14:
There were similar detachments outside of Budapest, the same being
delegated to hold the provincial towns in mortal terror, _e.g._, the
‘Fabik Detachment’ in Székesfehérvár, the ‘Gombos Terror Gang’ in
Györ, etc.
Footnote 15:
Béla Kún and a large number of his fellow-Commissioners escaped to
Vienna. Our efforts to obtain their extradition by Austria were
fruitless; under the pressure of the Socialists the Austrian
Government refused, and subsequently handed them over to the Russian
Soviet authorities.
After the re-establishment of law and order, of the revolutionary
criminals arrested ninety-six were condemned to death, the rest being
sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Of the persons condemned
to death fourteen were reprieved, eighteen (together with 400 other
condemned persons) handed over—in exchange for Hungarian prisoners of
war—to the Russian Soviet, while sixty-four were hanged, the latter
number including Korvin, László, Schán, and Cserny.
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