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The
Lenin Boys were a band of
Communist enforcers formed to support the short-lived
Hungarian Soviet Republic of
1919. The group seems to have contained about 200 young men dressed in leather jackets, acting as the personal guard of
Tibor Szamuely, Commissar for Military Affairs. Their unit commander was József Cserny.
The Lenin Boys (or, more correctly translated, the "Lenin Youth") were used as an instrument to suppress opposition to the communist government.
While it isn't clear when and to what degree the Lenin Youth became executioners, contemporary media reports suggest there was an evolution from enforcers to killers. On May 18, 1919, almost two months into the four-month-long Hungarian revolution, the
New York Times reported that
After a failed counter-revolutionary coup attempt in June 1919, Communist leader Béla Kun is said to have unleashed the Lenin Youth in a more savage fashion, in order to stamp out any more counter-revolutionary urges among his opponents.
He failed. With the backing of the occupying French, Romanian troops invaded Hungary, occupying Budapest on August 6, 1919. Kun and his colleagues fled. After the arrival of
Miklós Horthy's
counterrevolutionary Hungarian forces in Budapest three months later, virulently anti-Communist officers carried out a wave of savage retributive violence against Communists (as well as suspected leftists of any stripe) known as the
White Terror. The Lenin Youth were particular targets for their anger.
Cserny was captured, tried and executed by the new government in December 1919.
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