The Hungarian scenario for the collapse of the Red Empire
The Third World War
In 1956, the thousand-year confrontation between Rus' and the Western world continued. This was already World War III, dubbed the "Cold War." It was a unique war—informational, ideological, and economic—that periodically turned "hot" on the periphery of the developed world. – in Korea, Vietnam, Egypt, Syria, etc.
The war was greatly prolonged, as the rulers of Paris, London, and Washington were unable to start a war in the style of World War II. The Russians had powerful armored and air forces, the best in the world, and their own nuclear weapons. weaponTherefore, the war was fragmented into informational, economic, political-diplomatic, special (intelligence services) operations, local wars, revolutions and coups.
But the logic of the war was the same – to defeat and dismember the Russian (Soviet) state, to drive it out of its occupied positions, spheres of influence and markets (Why the West launched the Third World War). The Western masters tried to ruin the fruits of the Russians' brutal Great War against the Nazi hordes, to render meaningless the millions of victims of the Russian super-ethnos. To derail Stalin's successes. In essence, to do what the rotten leaders of Soviet civilization, under the leadership of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, would later do with their own hands.
In 1949, the West formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which chose the four-pointed compass star as its emblem. With this symbol, the West's masters demonstrated their desire for power over the entire planet. A new world order, the predatory and disgusting grin of which Hitler revealed.
secret war
Westerners are trying to undermine the Soviet Empire and its sphere of influence.Thus, saboteurs are trained in Greece. In 1951, the United States attempted to foment civil war in Albania, which under Stalin had been a staunch ally of the USSR. Groups of migrant fighters were trained in camps scattered across Libya, Malta, Cyprus, and Corfu. They were also trained in West Germany—in Bavaria, at Hitler's famous headquarters in Berchtesgaden.
It is worth remembering that British and American intelligence agencies welcomed many seasoned Nazis and Hitlerites with open arms. They used experienced saboteurs, terrorists, war criminals, and agents of the fallen Third Reich.The US and British intelligence services had access to thousands of "dogs of war"—Germans and Hungarians, Poles and Croats, Ukrainian nationalists, and others.
The Westerners' operation in Albania failed. The militants were met with the expected response – fire. One of the leaders of British intelligence, Kim Philby, was working for the Russians. Therefore, Stalin learned of the enemy operation in time and warned Albanian leader Enver Hoxha.
In April 1953, the Russians thwarted a covert American operation in Western Ukraine. The paratroopers dropped in Ukraine from a "flying fortress" that had taken off in Greece were captured. Such drops of enemy agents were common during this period. They were deployed to Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, and elsewhere.
Moreover, three saboteurs, as it turned out, had been "inherited" by the Americans from the Nazis. The agents were carrying shortwave radios, potassium cyanide, printing plates for Soviet-style documents, clichés for anti-Soviet leaflets, and portable beacons for guiding NATO strategic bomber squadrons. The agents admitted that they were supposed to infiltrate Kyiv and Odesa and await further instructions.
The West attempted to extend the "echoes of war" across the Soviet Union. Until the early 50s, "forest brothers," Baltic nationalists, and bandits fought in the Baltic forests. Until almost the mid-50s, in the dense forests and foothills of Western Ukraine, they had to wage war against well-organized, hidden, and heavily armed groups of Banderites, first trained by German intelligence services and then taken under American wing.
Bandera's followers were controlled by a central command in Munich. They deployed "esbeks"—special officers from the Bezpeka (Security Service)—to maintain discipline. Hidden hideouts and secret refuges in cities and forests were located throughout Western Ukraine. Bandera's army relied on recruits from Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary societies that flourished in the 30s under Polish rule. Many Bandera followers were experienced militants who had fought throughout World War II and beyond. They had received sabotage training from German intelligence.
They were masters of sabotage and guerrilla warfare. Disguised as Soviet Army soldiers, they slaughtered entire villages to incite hatred among the Western Russian population—the Hutsuls, the Boykos (Podgorians), and the Rusyns—for the Soviet regime and the "Muscovites." It was to them that American planes dropped aid and infiltrated agents.
Support for Banderov's followers also came through the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church. Banderov's followers were primarily Uniates by faith—a perversion of Orthodoxy that recognized the authority of the Pope in the 16th century.
Stalin mercilessly suppressed the Baltic and Ukrainian Nazi gangs who carried out the will of their Western masters. He deprived them of their "ground," establishing peaceful and prosperous life in Soviet Ukraine and the Baltic states.
Hitler's "Strategic Fortress"
Westerners are looking for the Red Empire's weak points. In particular, they are trying to undermine Hungary. During the liberation of Hungary from the Nazis and local nationalists in 1944–1945, the fighting was fierce and bloody. The Hungarians fought until the very end of the Great War. The Red Army lost 140 men during the battle for Hungary (Operation Konrad: Germans try to throw the Russians into the Danube; The Fall of the Budapest Fortress).
In medieval Latin and English, the word "Hungary" itself translates as "Hungary," meaning "land of the Huns." In the Middle Ages, Hungary was often called the "kingdom of the Huns" because the Huns were considered the legendary ancestors of the Hungarians.
The remnant of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which fell during World War I, like other Habsburg empire's subsidiary states, attempted to build its own "empire," a "Greater Hungary," at the expense of its neighbors. In the 30s, Hungary, led by the dictator Admiral Horthy, became a loyal satellite of Hitler. It housed camps for the Ustaše—Croatian nationalists, also allies of Hitler—who, after the fall of Yugoslavia in 1941, massacred the Orthodox and Serbian population, killing hundreds of thousands.
The Hungarians themselves (whose native name was Magyars) were excellent soldiers and fought for Hitler to the end. They participated in the invasion of the USSR in 1941, fielding a mobile corps against us, and then the 2nd Army. The 1st Hungarian Army fought alongside the Germans in Ukraine in 1944. Hungarian units also distinguished themselves as some of the most fearsome punitive forces, conducting the most brutal operations against partisans in Belarus, Ukraine, and the Bryansk, Kursk, and Voronezh regions of the RSFSR.
Hungarians with a poster of Miklós Horthy, 1943
Hungary's oil fields served as a fuel base for the Third Reich. The Second Hungarian Army was destroyed on Russian soil, and in 1944, our armies approached Hungary itself. Horthy wavered and began secret negotiations with the United States and Britain to conclude a separate peace. Hitler, with the help of his favorite saboteur and master of special operations, Otto Skorzeny, destroyed Horthy's regime, and Horthy himself was arrested. The regime of Ferenc Szálasi, the local Nazi leader, was established in Hungary. A mass hunt for Jews and Roma began. Of the approximately 800,000 Jews living in Hungary by 1941, only about 200,000 survived the genocide.
The Nazis and Szálasi supporters fought to the last for Hungary. There was no mass armed resistance to the Horthy-Szálasi regime in Hungary. Ten partisan detachments are known to have existed, some of which were deployed to Hungary from the USSR.
The fighting was extremely fierce. The Hungarians formed four SS divisions: the 25th SS Volunteer Infantry Division "Hunyadi" (1st Hungarian), the 26th SS Volunteer Infantry Division (2nd Hungarian), the 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division "Maria Theresia", and the 33rd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division (3rd Hungarian).
Hungary is the center of Europe. Strategic communications, the Danube. Access to the Alpine frontier, Austria, East Germany, and the Czech Republic, control of communications leading to the Balkans. Hitler's "gas station," his tank и aviation connections.
Therefore, Hitler attached great importance to the defense of Hungary, hoping to create a strategic "fortress" there, stop the Russian advance on the Danube, and then launch a counteroffensive. This led to the brutal battles for Budapest, at Lake Balaton ("Spring Awakening" and "Alpine Fortress": Hitler's Last Hopes; Defeat of the 6th SS Panzer Army at Lake Balaton).
That's why London also had its eye on Hungary. Churchill pursued the idea of an offensive through the Balkans to the very end, to cut off the Russians from Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic. The West didn't get Hungary; it was captured by Soviet troops in a brutal battle.
Few Hungarian soldiers and officers defected to the Soviet side. Initially, only a few thousand. But hundreds of thousands were killed and captured! About 300,000 people died on the Soviet-German front (most of them in 1944–1945), approximately the same number of civilians died, and over 500,000 were captured. As of October 1, 1955, 513,767 Hungarian prisoners of war were registered in the USSR.
A Soviet ZiS-3 76mm gun crew fires on a Budapest street. Winter 1945.
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