His attempted plan to fool the police failed, and the police continued arresting Hungarian Communists.
The Hungarian Communists in exile were bitterly divided along factional lines.
Throughout the 1920s, many Hungarian Communists moved to Moscow, with Kun among them.
As a result, Hungarian Communists, like the Poles before them, are beginning to act like Western politicians.
Having plunged into Westernization and facing elections next year, the Hungarian Communists could not string up the barbed wire again.
Hungarian Communists and former Communists say this accounts for the "pragmatism" that is usually cited as his principal characteristic.
Polish and Hungarian Communists have understood they have to sacrifice the party monopoly.
The contacts with the Hungarian Communists were of an informal nature, but definitely important, and continued well into the 1920s.
Moscow and the Hungarian Communists have always asserted that it was a counter-revolution.
The West need not despair the resurrection of Hungarian Communists.