Sándor Barta

After emigrating to the Soviet Union, he remained active amongst German-speaking cultural groups.

He was an active agent in carrying out the Stalinist purges amongst the literary intelligentsia, but was himself arrested by the Soviet authorities and shot in 1938.

[2] He started writing poetry, and his first poem was published in MA.

He married the poet Erzsi Újvári the sister of Lajos Kassák who edited MA.

[4] Barta launched the journal Akasztott Ember ("Hanged Man") in November 1922.