Red Army (Hungary)
The armed units of the Soviet Republic , which existed in Hungary in 1919, are called the Hungarian Red Army .
history
The Red Army was founded shortly after the Soviet government came to power in Hungary in March 1919. The Hungarian communists under their leader Béla Kun (1886–1938) faced the extensive territorial demands of Czechoslovakia , Romania and the SHS state, supported by the Entente powers . Driven by patriotism , many World War II veterans joined the army of the Soviet Republic in order to repel the "invaders" and achieved short-term military successes. Under Colonel Aurél Stromfeld (1878–1927), the Red Army succeeded in founding the Slovak Soviet Republic as a puppet state on June 16, 1919 , following successes over Czechoslovak troops . The successful Hungarian northern offensive resulted in diplomatic notes from the Entente powers to the Hungarian council government in the first half of June 1919, calling for the immediate cessation of fighting and the withdrawal of the Red Army behind the line of demarcation established at the Paris Peace Conference .
When the council government ordered the withdrawal from conquered areas without corresponding guarantees, Aurél Stromfeld resigned as chief of staff on July 1, 1919 in protest against this decision. The Red Army was ultimately defeated in the fight against Romanian troops . In August 1919 Romania occupied the Hungarian capital Budapest , which resulted in the fall of the Soviet Republic. After the Romanians withdrew in 1920, Imperial Administrator Miklós Horthy and his Royal Hungarian Army took power in Hungary.
literature
- Siegfried Höppner: The armed defense of the Hungarian Soviet Republic against the first attack of the international counterrevolution, in: Military history 18 (1979), pp. 149–159.
- Joseph Rothschild: East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars. University of Washington Press, Seattle et al. 1990, ISBN 0-295-95357-8 , pp. 137-153, (History of East Central Europe 9).