Lajos Magyar (; 25 November 1891,

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– 17 July 1940,

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) was a Hungarian

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journalist and

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, active in the

Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 The Socialist Federative Republic of Councils in Hungary ( hu, Magyarországi Szocialista Szövetséges Tanácsköztársaság) (due to an early mistranslation, it became widely known as the Hungarian Soviet Republic in English-language sources ( ...

, after the fall of which he was imprisoned by the Horthy regime. In 1922 Magyar went to the

as the result of an exchange of prisoners. There he worked on the staff of the

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and at the newspaper ''

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''. Between 1926 and 1927 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to

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. From 1929 to 1934 he served as deputy chief of the Oriental Secretariat of the

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. In 1934, Magyar was falsely accused of being involved in the Kirov assassination; he was arrested and sentenced to prison convicted as a " Zinovievite-

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". Magyar was sent to a

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, where he ultimately perished. The "Guidebook to the Pantheon of the Working-Class Movement of the Imre Mező Avenue Cemetery" reports that Lajos Magyar died on July 17, 1940, but despite this, his wife never learned of the circumstances or even the date of his death.

References

*Borsanyi, György. ''The life of a Communist revolutionary, Béla Kun'': Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1993.

External links

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