His family got out of Hungary in 1919, to escape the Hungarian Soviet Republic of Bela Kun. The communist government nationalised estates and started a policy t

His family got out of Hungary in 1919, to escape the Hungarian Soviet Republic of Bela Kun. The communist government nationalised estates and started a policy they themselves called the red terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Hungary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Hungary) see: https://medium.com/young-spurs/the-unsung-genius-of-john-von-neumann-5abec91a6359 https://medium.com/young-spurs/the-unsung-genius-of-john-von... "This experience marked a formative period in von Neumann’s political views, as his passionate anti-Communism was forged, an animus which he would carry for the rest of his life."