Bela Kun Quotes:- Bela Kun (born 20 February 1886 – 29 August 1938) was a Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. After attending Franz Joseph University at Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Kun worked as a journalist before the First World War.
He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and was captured by the Imperial Russian Army in 1916, after which he was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in the Urals. Kun embraced communist ideas during his time in Russia, and in 1918 he co-founded a Hungarian arm of the Russian Communist Party in Moscow. He befriended Vladimir Lenin and fought for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
Inspirational Bela Kun Quotes
“I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.”
Bela Kun
“My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established since the masses are backing me.”
Bela Kun
“As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.”
Bela Kun
“I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.”
Bela Kun
“It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.”
Bela Kun
“Despite all this, as I have written, I consider the Comintern policy to be absolutely correct and I think that this leadership is in order.”
Bela Kun
“Comrades, it is difficult for me to speak because this blow is the hardest blow for me. But I think that it will also be a lesson for me.”
Bela Kun
