Lukács and his wife were not permitted to leave the Soviet Union until after the Second World War . During Stalin 's Great Purge , Lukacs was sent to internal exile in Tashkent for a time , where he and Johannes Becher became friends . Lukács survived the purges of the Great Terror , which claimed the lives of an estimated 80 % of the Hungarian émigrés in the Soviet Union . There is much debate among historians concerning the extent to which Lukács accepted Stalinism
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György Lukács