December 27, 1890: Birthday of Tibor Szamuely, Hungarian communist revolutionary.

In 1918 Szamuely organized a communist group among the Hungarian POWs in revolutionary Russia. Many of them joined the Red Army and fought in the Civil War.

Szamuely later went to Germany and in December 1918 took part in the formation of the German Communist Party with Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. He returned to Hungary on January 3, 1919, and became a member of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party.

In 1919 he was a Commissar for Military Affairs of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

After the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet republic, he was shot by Austrian border guard in August 1919.

Picture: Tibor Szamuely (left) speaks at the rally during the October revolution.

Via Dmytriy Kovalevich

