 A militantly anti-communist authoritarian government composed of military officers entered Budapest on the heels of the Romanians.A "white terror" ensued that led to the imprisonment, torture, and execution without trial of communists, socialists, Jews, leftist intellectuals, sympathizers with the Károlyi and Kun regimes, and others who threatened the traditional Hungarian political order that the officers sought to reestablish.Estimates placed the number of executions at approximately 5,000.