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The Foundation of Empires: Lessons from Hungary
The people of the United States do not have to have a civil war. They do not have to elect the right people to get what they want and deserve. There is another level to this and as anger grows over the ineffectual federal government’s inability to arrest criminals and traitors within the government; their collective inability to stand solidly behind principle while the left makes a mockery of the judicial system, there is a means to address the disillusionment.
I will reflect once again on the Michener book The Bridge at Andau, as I find it most instructive. It was not exclusively the abuse of the AVO men (the spies of the communist regime), nor the prison sentences for mere utterances of seeming criticism of the communists, that led to the revolution of 1956. While that short-lived confrontation lasted only twelve days during which the Soviets had been pushed back out of Budapest, a five day period when dreams of freedom inflamed the blood of patriotic Hungarians and a few more days of battle that saw the Russians regain control, it was not a victory.
With all the tanks, hundreds of advanced (for the time) T-54s, the fifteen hundred infantry, mostly gathered during the five-day hiatus from either Russia proper or other outlying Asiatic units, who would be vicious in their revenge for effrontery, but not Hungarians, because many of them were fighting alongside the revolutionaries, students, workers, housewives and children against Soviet oppression. For all of the warplanes, ammunition and artillery put against the…