 In Slovakia, memorials were destroyed mainly after intervention of Red Guards of Béla Kun in spring and summer 1919, when statues of Lajos Kossuth were destroyed in Rožňava, Lučenec, Dobšiná and Nové Zámky, as well as a statue of Ferenc Rákóczi in Brezno and numerous others.In almost all of these cases the perpetrators were soldiers of the Czechoslovakian legion.The idleness of state authorities encouraged destroyers of statues.