Gyula Alpári

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Gyula Alpári (1882 – 1942) was a Hungarian Communist politician, a journalist by profession. Alpári participated as a leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1919. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he fled to Soviet Russia and became an official of the Communist International. In the 1920s and early 30s, Alpári was active in Germany, where he was editor in chief on the Comintern’s German-language periodical Internationale Presse Korrespondenz. In the late 1920s, Alpári had a political clash with Béla Kun, the main leader of the Hungarian Communists. He was accused of being a "Trotskyist", but evaded the Stalinist repression as the political tension was growing in Germany with the rise of fascism. When the Nazis took power in 1933, Alpári fled to France. After the Nazi invasion in 1940, Alpári was arrested by Gestapo in Paris and taken to the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, where he was shot in 1942.

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