Background to the Stalinization of Hungary.

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Background to the Stalinization of Hungary.
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Hungary after the Trianon Peace settlement.
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Kun Béla and the Hungarian Soviet Republic 1919.
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White Terror.
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• Key events
• Attacked by Czechoslovakia, Romania and Serbia in
  Nov 1918.
• Communist republic in March 1919.
• Red terror during the spring and early summer of
  1919.
• White Terror under Horthy and the Interwar Years.
• The Vienna Awards 1938.
• Hungary joining Germany in the war against USSR.
• Germany occupying in March 44.
• Hungarian Nazis Arrow Cross, coup in October 44.
• Holocaust in Hungary, Rauol Wallenberg. 300 000
  dead in Hungary (todays borders).
• Budapest battlefield winter 1945.

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STALINIZATION OF HUNGARY
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Hungary in 1945.
April 13 1945 War is over in Hungary. Unlike
Germany, Budapest and Hungary is liberated by
USSR alone. Hungarians living in Transylvania,
Slovakia and Serbia are victims of awful
atrocities at the end of the war. The Soviet
Authorities take three actions first 1. Find
all Nazis and war criminals and punish then. 2.
Reconstruct the Infrastructure in Russia with
forced labour. 3. Execute land reforms. Rapes
and plunder All Hungarian families have some
relative that suffered from the Red Armys march
through Hungary during the winter / spring of
1945. (Zsuzsa's story). The Soviets are NOT
greeted as liberators by the Hungarian
population.
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Hungary in 1945.
BUT, the Hungarian society is very polarized with
all the atrocities committed by the Nazis on the
other hand. In autumn 1945 a free election, the
next entirely free on is in 1989. The communist
leader Rákosi is convinced that the Communists
(MKP) will get at least 70 of the
votes. Smallholder's Party (Farmer's party) get
57 of the votes. The Communists backed by the
Red Army and the Soviet Advisors demand that
the communists gets seats in the Government
anyway. A Popular Front is formed. MKP Ministe
r of Interior, Minister of Agriculture and
Minister of Finance. Prime minister and
President from the Smallholder's Party.
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The Feudal Hungary.
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The MKP sabotages the Government's work from
within the Government. Demands quick Land
Reforms. The Search for Nazi collaborators and
war criminal continues. The MKP disturb the
party meetings held by other parties. Very
similar to what the NSDAP did in Germany.