After the Hungarian–Romanian War, Romanian Army troops entered Hungary and took Budapest on August 6, 1919, Kun and other members of the government fled. After the arrival of Miklós Horthy's counter-revolutionary death squads in Budapest three months later, anti-communist officers carried out waves of retributive violence against communists and their supporters (as well as suspected leftists of any stripe) known as the White Terror, wherein as many as 1,000 people were killed. As many communist leaders were ethnically Jewish, this encouraged anti-semitic lynchings in Budapest by paramilitary forces. The Lenin Youth were also targeted.