Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Feb 12, 2016 23:50:04 GMT
The Austro-Hungarian Civil Wars part 1: Outbreak
~1925
Spoiler alert: There'll be several parts to this (at least 5), with it maybe ending in 1991. Austria remains divided almost the entire time between Communists, Republicans, and other factions, with only one interruption of the civil war.
After the failure of the White movement in Russia, another surge in the Communist and Socialist revolutions, most notably in the former Austro-Hungarian states of Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, emphasis on Austria. In Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Communists have gone on the defensive, sitting in the forests and Mountains, while in Austria a large Civil war has begun. The former Allies of the World War One has grown tired and doesn't want to fight against the Communist resurgence.
Czechoslovakia is less concerned about the Communists in the east, though. They may have a lot of land, they don't have many people (they still of course wish to eventually take them out), but they have a larger concern: The "German Crusade," as some have called it, the German attempt to reclaim the Sudetenland in the name of Germany and/or Austria, Tens of thousands of Germans and Austrians (who aren't fighting in the Civil War) have answered the call to save the Germans in the Sudetenland. Some of the harshest fighting is in Pilsen, Budweis and Brunn, where German and Czech populations are split.
In Salzburg, the German Wiemar Republic intervened and occupied it to keep it from Communist hands.
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The Austro-Hungarian Civil wars part 2: Fortification
1928
The Red movement that started it's attack against Austria in Linz, Graz, and Lienz, but have since been repulsed from Graz and Linz, retreating into the mountains of Central and Western Austria. They have also been funding a German Socialist revolution in Sudtirol. While the Red Army of Austria looks large, having about half of the land of Austria, it only has about 1/3-1/4 of the population. With the growth of the Red Army of Austria, Germany has also come in to secure Voralburg and keeping it's protection of Salzburg.
In Hungary, the Socialist Army has slowly disbanded, but the territories they control or just outside is still extremely dangerous territory.
In Czechoslovakia, the two rebel armies of the German People's Army and the Socialist Army of Czechs and Slovaks both have taken more territory. It looks like the united and free Republic of Czechoslovakia will be a short live one, being replaced by a division of Sudetenland and victory of the Socialists.
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Austro-Hungarian Wars part 3: The Red Offensive
1931
In 1929, the Socialists of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria had decided to bind themselves together in the People's Socialist Federation, an agreement to aid each other. It was at this point that a massive offensive took place. Budapest has fallen, Nitra has fallen, Vienna is close to falling, and smaller cities all over Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Austria have been captured.
This has forced a coalition of the "Counter-Federation" made up of mostly Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Italy, with Germany sending aid. Czechoslovakia, as part of the agreement to get the aid from Italy and Germany, had to surrender the Sudetenland to Austria and Germany.
Italy's aid has been fairly minimal so far (more focused on South Tirol), but soon here they plan a grand invasion to wipe Socialism from Austria entirely.
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Austro-Hungarian Wars Part 4: The Eagles Spread Their Wings
1933
In the mid Spring of 1932, Mussolini's Italy started a large scale attack against the Communist Germans, first taking most of the important parts of Sud Tirol, and then making their way over the border. The next month, Poland did the same in Czechoslovakia, and thanks to this two pronged attack, the Socialist Federation collapsed for the most part, with the last major areas being in Hungary and the Slovak-Hungarian border, only because these were to far for Poland and Hungary to reach in one go. The Republics of Austria and Czechoslovakia thought that this was Italy and Poland coming to save their Republics, but no. These were two more players joining the game over the former Austrian Empire, Mussolini declaring that he intended to put the House of Habsburg back on the throne of Austria, and Poland invading to forcefully form a West-Slavic Union. Everyone knows that if a Habsburg is placed back on the throne of Austria, it'll be a Puppet of the nation who placed them there.
Larger parts of Austria have been further occupied by Germany and their new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, keeping them from being occupied by Italy. He has said he intends to integrate these areas, and eventually annex the whole of Austria. Tensions further grow between the old Fascist government of Italy, and the new Nazi government of Germany.
