Chapter 61: Hungary (Please Vote)
After the Vienna government successively crushed the Prague Rebellion and the Galician Rebellion, the news reached Hungary, and the opposition led by Kossuth could no longer sit still.
Judging from the current situation, the Vienna government had no intention whatsoever of compromising with the revolutionaries. Other than suppression, there was only suppression. The bloody crackdown in Galicia in particular had terrified many people.
Ludwig von Benedek, who was responsible for suppressing the Galician Rebellion, directly allowed the local populace to take revenge on nobles and capitalists. Of the more than twenty thousand dead, most had been beaten to death by the people.
It was impossible for the Vienna government to execute more than twenty thousand people all at once. Franz had his pride, too. For the long-term peace and stability of Austrian Poland, killing with a borrowed knife became the only option.
They gathered a group of local militiamen and exploited the contradictions between them and the exploiting class, purging those reactionaries who had lorded it over everyone.
Looking across the country, aside from the war still continuing in Italy, nearly every rebellion had been bloodily suppressed. Hungary would soon have to fight alone.
If they had turned back the clock by a month, before Hungary's cabinet government had been established, there would still have been room for compromise between the two sides. Even before the April 14 declaration of independence was issued, there had still been a chance to turn back.
Yet the Vienna government had never recognized the legitimacy of the Hungarian cabinet and had repeatedly ordered it to dissolve its illegal government.
Kossuth had always advocated breaking away from Austria and establishing an independent Hungarian Republic, but unfortunately, such an idea had only a limited market in Hungary.
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