African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1439: The Situation of the Hungarian Labor Party
At the beginning of the 20th century, although the international community was relatively loose, there was also a system of public opinion hegemony constructed by powerful countries. In the field of international exchanges and cultural communication, English-speaking countries had an absolute advantage.

In addition to the support of the two top powers, Britain and the United States, Britain's overseas colonies and spheres of influence played an important role, such as India, Australia, Canada, etc. India alone is enough to increase the population covered by English by nearly 300 million.

When talking about the influence of English, we must also include those news media with capital backgrounds in English-speaking countries, such as the well-known Shenbao in the Far Eastern Empire, whose founder was a British businessman, and it was just one of the more representative newspapers of British capital in the Far Eastern Empire.

Therefore, considering the population covered by English, the number of countries, the influence, etc., no other language can rival it for the time being.

The UK also took advantage of this and attempted to organize a powerful network of public opinion hegemony around the world, which has caused a lot of trouble in East Africa.

This has further promoted the idea of ​​building a cultural and public opinion hegemony system centered on German in East Africa.

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Budapest.

While the German-speaking countries' organization conference was in full swing, the world's focus was still on Hungary.

In the face of the encirclement and suppression by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Hungarian Labor Party also launched tit-for-tat measures. In the Hungarian Struggle Office of the Labor Party Government in Budapest, Kuhn was discussing the current war situation with his colleagues.

"Now the troops from the west and north of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are gathering towards Komarno. There is a shipyard and a railway bridge in Komarno connecting the two banks. Once the Austro-Hungarian troops gain a foothold here, they can move southwards to reduce the space for our regime to operate."

"We can go east along the Danube and march straight to Budapest, so we have to occupy Komarno before the Austro-Hungarian Empire gathers."

Komárno was a city in Slovakia in its previous life. Before World War I, the area belonged to Hungary. After the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hungary was also dismembered, so Komárno, an important transportation hub, was also ceded.

It is less than 100 kilometers away from Budapest, located at the confluence of the Václav River and the Danube River. It is also a node where the Austro-Hungarian Railway and the Danube River meet.

Whether the Austro-Hungarian army comes from Austria or Slovakia, they must give priority to capturing this place, thus threatening the security of Budapest.

Therefore, it is impossible for high-level officials such as Hungarian Labor Party leader Kuhn to turn a blind eye to this strategic location.

Varga, the commander-in-chief of the Hungarian Red Police, said: "Comrade Kun, I suggest that after we capture Komarno, we should directly blow up the local railway bridge to prevent the Austro-Hungarian army from moving south. At the same time, we should organize more troops to hold on to Komarno. The industrially developed areas of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are in the west and north."

"This also means that our military pressure in the northeast is the greatest. Therefore, if we want to defend Komarno, our troops should not be less than 50,000. We also need to consider the possibility of German intervention in the future, so we must always be prepared to reinforce the northwest front."

The so-called Red Civilian Police, which is now the army organized by the Hungarian Workers' Party, is used to replace the former Hungarian army and police, so Varga is equivalent to the current leader of the Hungarian army.

Kuhn agreed with Varga's suggestion. He said: "Now, for our new regime, any accident may strangle the new government in its cradle."

"Therefore, we should be more cautious in military affairs. Hungary has been a warring country since ancient times, which has led to enormous pressure on us."

"Therefore, it is necessary to blow up the railway bridge in Komarno. Even if we cannot defend Komarno, we can delay the speed of the Austro-Hungarian reactionary army moving south."

Hungary is located on a large plain, which naturally makes Hungary the granary of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, the plain terrain is obviously not conducive to military development. To put it bluntly, it is a place of war.

The Labor Party regime in Budapest also had a deep understanding of this. After the uprising, the enemy poured into Budapest from almost all directions. Of course, the main pressure came from the northeast.

"In southern Hungary, our Serbian comrades also launched military operations, which ensured temporary stability in our south, while Romania in the east must be vigilant because Romania itself has territorial disputes with Hungary," Kuhn said.

"At present, there is a high probability that there will be no unusual movement in Romania, but we have to be on guard."

Romania had always been obsessed with Hungary's Transylvania region, and Kuhn himself was a Transylvanian, so he was particularly wary of Romania.

Of course, there is another very eye-catching thing about Romania, that is, the king of the Kingdom of Romania is also a member of the Hohenzollern family.

This means that if Germany joins the military intervention against the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the future, Romania will most likely cooperate with the Germans.

In fact, Hungary’s neighbors also include Western Ukraine, but Western Ukraine is restrained by the Soviet Union and obviously does not dare to mobilize its troops easily.

“So, the military pressure that our government is currently talking about is coming from two main directions, namely the northwest and the east,” Kuhn concluded.

"At the same time, we must also be wary of a counterattack by the remnants of the nobility and bourgeoisie in the country."

"At this stage, due to our military disadvantage, we should adopt a more conservative tactic. When facing the Austro-Hungarian encirclement army, we should suppress them in the northwest first."

"At the same time, we will deploy a certain number of troops on the front line in Romania to prevent the reactionary Romanian government from stabbing us in the back."

“In addition to these two points, our focus is to completely defeat the remnants of Hungarian reaction in the south and east of the country.”

"Mobilize the Hungarian masses, deal a fatal blow to the old aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, redistribute the land, nationalize all the factories, and gain the support of the workers and peasants for the new government."

“Only after we have completely integrated Hungary will we have the strength to truly contend with the Austro-Hungarian Empire and other external forces.”

“As long as the regime is consolidated, we can get in touch with our comrades in the Soviet Union and Serbia and lay the foundation for the overall situation.”

Today, the actual ruling area of ​​the Hungarian Labor Party is actually concentrated in the northwest of Hungary, and there are still a large number of remnant aristocratic forces throughout the country. As for the Hungarian bourgeoisie, due to the relatively backward Hungarian industry, its own strength is relatively weak, and the main areas where the Hungarian Labor Party incident occurred this time are concentrated in the cities, which is a fatal blow to the bourgeoisie.

After all, the main forces of the bourgeoisie were concentrated in the cities, and it was the nobles and landlords in the Hungarian countryside who escaped.

Of course, the Hungarian nobles were not feeling well either, because the fall of Budapest led to the destruction of the entire core of the Hungarian aristocratic system.

Therefore, the local Hungarian nobles were basically in a state of disarray and fighting each other. They tried to resist the offensive of the Labor Party with their own territories as the core, but it was almost impossible to succeed in the face of the peasants instigated by the Labor Party.

Unlike Polish farmers, Hungarian farmers were not resolute in their opposition to the Labor Party. Of course, the more important point was that the leader of this Hungarian incident was the Hungarian Labor Party itself.

Why did the Polish peasants oppose the Labor Party? To be more precise, they were not against the Labor Party, but against the Russian Labor Party. The main point was their distrust of the Russians.

The situation in Hungary is different. There are many Hungarian farmers who do not have their own land. The Hungarian Labor Party redistributes land wherever it goes, so it is naturally popular among them.

Of course, the Hungarian nobles were not easy to deal with. Although the Hungarian central government was wiped out, the Austro-Hungarian government still existed.

Today, nobles across Hungary are re-establishing ties with the Habsburgs in order to gain support from the empire and suppress the Hungarian Labor Party.

In other words, the Hungarian Labor Party's disturbance actually strengthened the Hungarian nobles' centripetal force towards the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This was actually an opportunity for the Habsburgs, but of course, more of a challenge. If they couldn't even suppress the Hungarian Labor Party, then the Habsburgs' rule over the Austro-Hungarian Empire would basically be over.

Based on the threat from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Varga said to Kuhn: "Comrade Kuhn, our main threat now is still Austria. Overall, Austria's strength is far greater than Hungary's, not to mention that the Hungary we have now is not complete."

"So, we can't just wait for Austria to complete the mobilization of troops, but should put some pressure on them."

"For example, supporting rebellions in Bosnia and Croatia made the Austro-Hungarian government busy and lost the best opportunity to intervene in Hungary."

Kuhn nodded and said, "Indeed, the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself is facing serious ethnic problems. We should also add fuel to the fire and make the Austro-Hungarian Empire completely chaotic, inciting other ethnic groups and regions to conflict with the Habsburgs."

"As for our current situation, Slovakia and Bosnia are directly adjacent to Hungary. We should mobilize our local comrades and ask them to start an uprising as well."

"Especially in Bosnia, where the majority of the population is Serbs and Croats, and borders Serbia. We can get in touch with our Serbian comrades, and once they have initially stabilized the situation in Serbia, we can move north and seize Bosnia."

The Hungarian Labor Party certainly wanted to instigate rebellion in other parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, such as among the Italians in Venice and Lombardy, but due to the distance, it was obviously difficult for the Hungarian Labor Party to reach out there.

Kuhn said: "It is actually quite difficult for us to accomplish this alone, so we should urge our Soviet comrades, who have greater influence than us."

"If they support the labor parties in other regions, they will definitely be able to completely detonate the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and at that time, our pressure will be greatly reduced."

The Soviet Union is the core leader of the world's labor parties today, so it is not surprising that Hungarian senior officials such as Kuhn sought support from the Soviet Union. The only pity is that the current Soviet leader Joseph, out of consideration for the Soviet national interests, is not as pure in his external support as Comrade Vladimir.

This is also an important reason why the Hungarian Labor Party is in a difficult situation in the Hungarian incident today.

Looking at the difficulties the Hungarian Labor Party is facing today, a large part of them comes from interference from external forces, and they are almost isolated and helpless.

In this regard, Varga complained: "Since Russia became the Soviet Union, their support for us has become much weaker, which is also an important reason why the Labour Party in European countries is under pressure today."

Kuhn comforted him: "We cannot count on others. As the Labor Party, we should rely on ourselves. As the Internationale says, there is no so-called savior, and the Soviet Union is not our savior. If we want to get through the difficulties, the only one we can rely on is ourselves."

"Okay, now that the general strategy has been determined, the government and the Red Police Team will take action according to the deployment."

"As long as we can hold the Habsburgs back, our pressure will decrease. By then, Franz will definitely be more anxious than us. After all, the rule of the Habsburgs cannot withstand the test of time. The longer the time drags on, the more restless those with ulterior motives in the Austro-Hungarian Empire will become."

After pacifying his comrades, Kuhn began to deploy other tasks. After all, in addition to fighting, consolidating the regime also requires attention to economic and other aspects.

Now, the Hungarian Labor Party government is actively resuming production, because the situation Hungary faces is worse than that of the Russian Labor Party. The Russian Labor Party faced a blockade, but relying on its abundant resource advantages, it was not easy to encounter major problems.

Moreover, Russia has a vast territory, and it is impossible to completely blockade Russia even if one wants to. For example, in Central Asia and the Far East, the Russians can always find a way to break through.

Hungary is surrounded by wolves, its area is not too large, and it is completely locked inland. Apart from food, it does not have to worry too much, but many other materials have to rely on external imports.

Especially in terms of industrial products. After all, under the Austro-Hungarian Empire system, Hungary's mission was to develop agriculture. Now that Hungary and the Austro-Hungarian Empire have been separated, this also means that the original industrial product supply chain has been broken.

Hungary itself has relatively weak industrial strength and has suffered considerable damage in the past due to various reasons. Apart from other factors, the development of Hungary's military industry is now more difficult.

Before the Soviet Union explicitly supported Hungary, the Hungarian Labor Party could only produce its own weapons to ensure the supply of weapons and ammunition to the front line. Therefore, restoring the production of Hungarian arsenals has been placed at the forefront of the Hungarian Labor Party's current tasks.

Today, the ranks of the Hungarian Labor Party are expanding rapidly, which makes it difficult for the already fragile Hungarian military industry to keep up. Many Labor Party soldiers cannot even be allocated a rifle, and the Hungarian Labor Party army even has a much harder time supplying materials than the Russian army during World War I.

(End of this chapter)