UNIFORM OF THE RED TERROR

Seizing power in the chaos of the Austro-hungarian Empire’s dissolution, Béla Kun’s Hungarian Soviet Republic immediately followed in Lenin’s bloodied footprints by forming Red Terror groups – such as the ‘Lenin Boys’ – to purge the countryside of “counter-revolutionaries”. After one month of repression and

590 executions, the Romanian army entered Budapest to restore order and in their wake Hungarian nationalists began a White Terror of their own in order to rid the whole nation of communists.