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Hungary Counterrevolution
A militantly anticommunist authoritarian government
composed
of military officers entered Budapest on the heels of the
Romanians. A "white terror" ensued that led to the
imprisonment,
torture, and execution without trial of communists,
socialists,
Jews, leftist intellectuals, sympathizers with the Karolyi
and
Kun regimes, and others who threatened the traditional
Hungarian
political order that the officers sought to reestablish.
Estimates placed the number of executions at approximately
5,000.
In addition, about 75,000 people were jailed. In
particular, the
Hungarian right wing and the Romanian forces targeted Jews
for
retribution. Ultimately, the white terror forced nearly
100,000
people to leave the country, most of them socialists,
intellectuals, and middle-class Jews.
Data as of September 1989
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