Zoltán Rónai was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 politician and jurist, who served as People's Commissar of Justice in 1919 during the Hungarian Soviet Republic

Hungarian Soviet Republic

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. Before the First World War he worked as a journalist of the Népszava

Népszava

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 and of the Szocializmus. He was a supporter of the centrist Zsigmond Kunfi

Zsigmond Kunfi

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. After the fall of the communist regime he emigrated to Vienna

Vienna

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 to joining to the Two and Half Internationale. Then he lived in Austria

Austria

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, France

France

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 and finally Belgium

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. He published articles for the Szocializmus, using the pseudonym

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 of Zoltán Vándor. After the Nazi invasion of Belgium

Battle of Belgium

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he committed suicide.