-154
-
shot him, but the power in conservative and Catholic Bavaria was then seized by a new
government made up of leftist intellectual Jews, who proclaimed the Bavarian Soviet Republic
(G. Landauer, E. Toller, E. Muhsam, O. Neurath) After one week the republic was overthrown
by an even more radical group” which declared the Second Bavarian Soviet Republi” with Eugen
Levine at the helm. Let’s read an article about him in the
Encyclopedia: “Born into a mercantile
Jewish family, he used to be a socialist-revolutionary; he participated in the Russian revolution
of 1905, later became a German national, joined the Spartacist movement of R. Luxemburg and
K. Liebknecht, and now he became the head of the Communist government in Bavaria, which
also included the abovementioned E. Muhsam, E. Toller and a native of Russia, M. Levin.” The
uprising was defeated in May 1919 by the
Freikorps of German veterans returning from the
Great War, the only loyal troops available to Germany at the time. The fact that
the leaders of the
suppressed Communist revolts were Jews was one of the most important reasons for the
resurrection of political anti-Semitism in contemporary Germany.
While Jews played a quite conspicuous role in the Russian and German communist
revolutions, their role in Hungary became central. Out of 49 People’s Commissars there were
many Jews, Bela Kun being the most prominent of them; the foreign minister and de-facto head
of government, he would orchestrate a bloodbath in the Crimea half a year later. Here we find
Matyas Rakosi, Tibor Szamuely, Gyorgy Lukacs. Granted, the prime-minister was a gentile,
Sandor Garbai, but Rakosi later joked that Garbai was elected because someone had to sign
execution orders on Sabbath days. Statues of Hungarian kings and heroes were knocked off their
pedestals, the national anthem outlawed, and wearing the national colors criminalized. Hanged
bodies dangling from trees, lamp posts and telegraph poles through Hungary became known as
“Szamuely fruit.”
The tragedy of the situation was escalated by the fact that historically Hungarian Jews
were much wealthier than their Eastern-European countrymen and were much more successful in
Hungarian society; Hungary was free of pogroms and more free of anti-Semitism than almost
anywhere else in Europe, and yet still the bodies swayed in the breeze. The direct relation
between the Hungarian Soviet Republic and our Civil War becomes more clear by the virtue of
the fact that a special Red Army Corps were being prepared to go to the rescue of the Hungarian
Soviet Republic, but they couldn’t manage it in time. Bela Kun, who seems to have been insane,
invaded both Czechoslovakia and Romania.
They were defeated, and
the Republic fell in August
1919 when Romanian troops entered Budapest. It had lasted four and a half months.
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: