Warning: Staging a coup and attacking the forces you just lost a world war against during treaty negotiations may result in being surrounded by your own previous border

    by TerryFromFubar

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    1. TerryFromFubar on

      Initial Hungarian territorial reparations after the First World War were relatively mild. However, during negotiations for the Treaty of Trianon, Béla Kun staged a coup, declared that Hungary would not accept any territorial losses, and attacked Czechoslovakia and Romania. It didn’t go well and the Hungarian Soviet Republic barely survived to August 1919. The surrounding territories pushed for the harshest possible reparations to ensure the same would not happen again, and thus, Hungary’s new borders were made up entirely of their old borders. 

    2. Frendowastaken on

      That’s why Hungarians today say we border ourselves. Most of those territories like southern Slovakia or regions of Transylvania still have Hungarian majorities.

    3. Transylvania united with Romania theough public vote on on the 1st and 15th of December 1918, long before any coup.

    4. wrong flags for Yugoslavian states. Yugoslavia wasnt communist at the time of Trianon. Those flags were only adopted post ww2.

    5. TheHistoryMaster2520 on

      Why are the flags of Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia communist ones that were adopted post-WW2?

    6. ConsequenceNo2571 on

      ITT: Turk nationalists claiming that Turkey, declared October 29 1923, won the First World War, which ended five years earlier.

    7. 90% of defeated nations capitulate in their continuation wars just before pulling off a Turkish war of independence.

    8. Fun fact: the Austria half of Austria Hungary lost a greater percentage of its territory than the Austrian half.

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