 Kun and his Party of Communists colleagues fled.After the arrival of Miklós Horthy's counterrevolutionary Hungarian death squads in Budapest three months later, virulently anti-Communist officers carried out a wave of savage retributive violence against Communists and their supporters (as well as suspected leftists of any stripe) known as the White Terror.As many communist leaders were ethnically Jewish, this encouraged anti-semitic lynchings in Budapest by these paramilitary forces.