and Szamuely was forced into exile. Later life The Hungarian Soviet Republic lasted for six months. On 1 August 1919, Kun went into exile as Romanian troops invaded Budapest. Szamuely managed to escape the anticommunist reprisals, known as the "White Terror". He left for Austria in his car on 2 August 1919, but after making an illegal border crossing, he was arrested by the Austrian authorities. Both Hungarian and Austrian authorities reported that Szamuely had shot himself while the Communist partisan who smuggled him across the border was searched. The wife of Béla Kun wrote in her memoires that Szamuely had told her of his plan to commit suicide if he was captured and had showed her a gun hidden in his clothes. That version of events is not universally accepted, however, and some believe that he had been shot by the border guards. The Soviet barge carrier was named after him. References Bibliography Tibor Szamuely Alarm! - ausgewählte Reden und Aufsätze (Berlin. 1959). András Simor: Így élt Szamuely Tibor, Móra Könyvkiadó. (Budapest, 1978) External links 1890 births 1919 deaths People from Nyíregyháza Jewish Hungarian politicians Jewish socialists Hungarian Communist Party politicians Hungarian revolutionaries Marxist journalists Hungarian prisoners of war Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war in World War I World War I prisoners of war held by Russia Hungarian people of the Hungarian–Romanian War Hungarian communists Deaths by firearm in Austria