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title: Te! sötétben bujkáló rémhírterjesztő ellenforradalmár reszkess! (You! Tremble, counter-revolutionary rumour-monger lurking in the dark!)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/te-sotetben-bujkalo-hungarian-soviet-1919/
description: A Red Army soldier in a red-starred cap points straight at the viewer with a rifle at his side, over the lettered command 'You, lurking in the dark…
section: Collection
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[![Te! sötétben bujkáló rémhírterjesztő ellenforradalmár reszkess! (You! Tremble, counter-revolutionary rumour-monger lurking in the dark!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/te-sotetben-bujkalo-hungarian-soviet-1919.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/te-sotetben-bujkalo-hungarian-soviet-1919.jpg)

# Te! sötétben bujkáló rémhírterjesztő ellenforradalmár reszkess! (You! Tremble, counter-revolutionary rumour-monger lurking in the dark!)

A Red Army soldier in a red-starred cap points straight at the viewer with a rifle at his side, over the lettered command 'You, lurking in the dark, rumour-spreading counter-revolutionary, tremble!' The tell is the direct address: the sheet issues no argument, it attaches a ready-made label to an unnamed 'you' and pairs it with a threat.

- **Date:** 1919
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Hungarian Soviet Republic, People's Commissariat for Public Education (Közoktatásügyi Népbiztosság), Army Propaganda Department (Hadsereg Propaganda Ügyosztálya); artist not named on the sheet
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Hungarian Soviet Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=hungarian-soviet-republic)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Hungarian Soviet Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=hungarian-soviet-republic)
- **Leader:** [Bela Kun](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=bela-kun)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Security and surveillance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=security-surveillance)
- **Event:** [Hungarian Soviet Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=hungarian-soviet-republic)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (scan attributed to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:You,_in_the_dark!.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published 1919 in Hungary, before 1931; Commons PD-Art/PD-old tag, PDM 1.0) Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919; scan via Wikimedia Commons (source given as hoover.org).

## Text on the object

Original (Hungarian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Te!
sötétben
bujkáló
rémhír-
terjesztő
ellenfor-
radalmár
reszkess!

KIADJA:
KÖZOKTATÁSÜGYI NÉPBIZTOSSÁG
HADSEREG PROPAGANDA ÜGYOSZTÁLYA.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
You!
lurking
in the dark,
rumour-
spreading
counter-
revolutionary,
tremble!

PUBLISHED BY:
PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION,
ARMY PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT.
```

A faint handwritten line and date at the lower right are not legible and are omitted. Line breaks follow the poster's hyphenated layout. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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