After the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he returned to Szatmárnémeti, where the occupying Romanian Army imprisoned him for 9 months.
匈牙利蘇維埃共和國成立後，他回到故鄉薩圖馬雷，卻在那裡遭羅馬尼亞佔領軍逮捕，被關了9個月。