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.

About Bela Kun

Bela Kunwas a Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. After attending Franz Joseph University at Kolozsvar (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Kun worked as a journalist up until the First World War.

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