(A member of Detré's future wife's family, it was rumored, served as an "artistic advisor" in the government of Béla Kun) but if so, it was not by official decree.
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He was an artist who left his native Hungary for good in rather obscure circumstances following the repression against the Béla Kun government of 1919.
War with the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 resulted in the occupation of Budapest by Romanian troops and the end of Béla Kun's Bolshevik regime.
Although Garbai remained titular head of the Hungarian Soviet Republic for most of its length, practical authority was in the hands of Communist foreign minister Béla Kun.
They also fulfilled their title as the "Czech national army", helping to defend Slovakia against the invasion of Béla Kun and the Hungarians.
Béla Bartók | Bela Lugosi | Béla Tarr | Béla Fleck | Bela Fleck | Bela Crkva | Béla Kun | Béla Fleck and the Flecktones | Béla IV of Hungary | Béla Balázs | Bela B. | River Bela | Chen Kun | Béla Bollobás | Nun Kun | Bela Reka | Bela Palanka | Béla H. Bánáthy | Bela Crkva (Vojvodina) | Bela Crkva (disambiguation) | Bela B | Spišská Belá | Lu Kun-chi | Lee Kun-fang | Kunio-kun | Jingle All the Way (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones album) | Jibaku-kun | Dajos Béla | Béla Lugosi | Béla Károlyi |
Among those killed and buried at Butovo were Soviet military commander Hayk Bzhishkyan, Russian statesman Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician Nikolai Krylenko, former leader of Hungary Béla Kun, Latvian painter Aleksandr Drevin, Latvian film actress Marija Leiko, bishop Seraphim Chichagov, Prince Dmitry Shakhovskoy and Latvian photographer Gustav Klutsis.