Red Terror (Hungary)

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Hungarian Red Terror

Lenin Boys pose with the body of one of their victims, Spring 1919
Date	April - August 1919
Location	Hungarian Soviet Republic
Motive	Political repression
Target	Anti-Communist groups, counter-revolutionaries, and dissidents
Organized by	Party of Communists in Hungary Lenin Boys Hungarian Red Army
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.