Talk:White Terror (Hungary)

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No mention is made in the article of the estimated number of casualties. This, acording to the equvalent entry in the Hungarian Wiki, was around 1,000 people killed, a figure at a par with the number of lives lost to the preceding spate of violent purges instigated under the communist Red Terror, which the White Terror was supposed to avenge. According to "Fehérterror" Pro-Horthy sources put the number of White Terror victoms at a considerably lower figure (cca. 300) with former Socialist Party chief János Kádár's historians arguing for a much higher number (5,000) for obvious propaganda reasons. Whichever figure comes closest to actual historical fact, the loss, though once very painful to those affected, is incomparably smaller than the number of innocent civilians murdered in attrocities committed later on an altogether different scale in the name of contending political extremes on both the right and the left.

Like the above user, I am also interested in the figures, though of course I do not expect unbiased measurements for such an obscure topic. InformedContent (talk) 15:26, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Many of its victims were Jewish." The statement implies that the White Terror was aimed against Jews. The sources themselves make no such claim -- there is no indication that there was an extraordinarily many Jews executed during the terror. At the time, Jews comprised 5% of Hungary's population, and 23% of Budapest residents were Jewish. It logically follows that any population sample will have a noticeable number of Jews in it. With the number of victims mentioned in the previous entries, the low total number of victims makes it hard to argue that White Terror was aimed against Jews in particular? Perhaps until there is agreement about a significant difference between the proportion of Jews among the victims to proportion of Jews among all Hungarians, changing the sentence to: "Many victims happened to be Jewish" or removing it altogether? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.9.13.138 (talk) 10:58, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In Hungary was Anti-semitism widely spread and Jews under the particular aimed groups, see publications about the Hungarian History and the publications about Pál Prónay.--Brigitte Ecker (talk) 10:17, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pál Prónay was in the army of the Communists before he changed to the White army. The change seemed not primarily had ideological causes, see article Pál Prónay literature and weblinks in this wikipedia.Did also changed other officers from the Red Army to the White Army? --Brigitte Ecker (talk) 10:17, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article looks, reads, feels like it is from an 8th grade elementary school history book from the early 50s, darkest stalinist-rákosist era. I cant beleive my eyes. It is not non-neutral, it is a travesty. 85.67.116.112 (talk) 16:14, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]